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authorThierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com>2014-09-08 12:39:19 +0200
committerThierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com>2014-09-12 22:26:43 +0200
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drop most of the script-based dependency generation bits
Use rpmdeps to generate any "normal" dependencies even for the kernel module stuff, drop all other unnecessary duplication like elf, libtool and pkgconfig deps. But for TCL, which is broken since forever (we don't package the needed prov/req scripts since at least 2007)
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- convert perl-base deps to internal generator
+- drop most of the script-based dependency generation bits
- use internal dependency generator instead of "external generator"
(like all other distros) which is way much faster :-)
See:
o http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/DependencyGenerator
o http://laiskiainen.org/blog/?p=35
+ side effect: we now output lowercase perl provides/requires (eg: "perl(urpm)")
- use upstream pkgconfigdeps.sh as we only have more checks because we were
still using the external generator