[Rule-list] rpm_analyzer and multi-provided resources

[Michael Van Donselaar]

On Wed,  7 Aug 2002 09:52:08 +0200,  "Marco Fioretti"
<m.fioretti at inwind.it> wrote:

>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 08:15:44PM -0500, Michael Van Donselaar wrote:
>> > rpm_analyzer works great, with one caveat.  Since glibc-devel and
>> > glibc-debug say that they provide many of the same resources as glibc,
>> > glibc-devel gets required by just about everything.  Likewaise
>> > kernel-bigmem and kernel-smp get required as well.
>> 
>> You're going to have the same problem with sendmail and postfix in
>> 7.3, since they both provide "smtpdaemon".
>> 
>> Ed
>
>Ed, Michael
>
>first of all, thanks a lot for the feedback!
>
>I had noticed the same problem the day before yesterday. I am still
>trying to find a way to overcome it, and any patch/trick/suggestion is
>very welcome!
>
>One important note however. Michael wrote:
>
>>I hand edited the cds file to show that glibc-devel only provides
>>gibc-devel and similar changes for the other kernels.
>
>This is an effective and fast way to check that there are no other
>problems, but I would like to go one step further. Eventually, the
>analyzer should (working on the original data):
>
>1) tell when a capability is not really required

I have no idea how you would do this.

>2) choose the smallest alternative, i.e. if two packages both provide
>   smtpdaemon, list only the one which requires the greatest number of
>   packages NOT YET COUNTED IN.

That sounds better than my first idea of including the smallest package.
I thought about it some more and came up with this idea:  when analyzing
the databases, note which resources are provided by multiple rpms.  The
user can edit _this_ file to prefer different packages on a per run
basis.

Then I can run once with postfix providing smtdaemon and once with
sendmail providing it.

>Any suggestion about this?

BTW, I found it useful to tweak the code to step thru @ARGV for multiple
packages, and to treat arguments starting with @ as a file containing a
list of rpms

>
>  TIA,
>
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