[Rule-list] Help needed for distro_analyzer and self dependencies

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Monday 12 August 2002 08:50 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:
> Ed Blackman wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 09:11:57AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> > > rpm -q --requires bash
> > >                       (among others)     /bin/bash
> > >
> > > Any suggestion about how to deal with this?
> >
> > Is bash the only example?  If so, I would suggest adding a special
> > case in the database generation script to avoid it.
>
> Not helpful at all, but: I would like to avoid "special cases" as it
> might lead to very much special cases in the end. It might be better to
> find out first what weird things RPM is doing. Is someone here
> subscribed to the Red Hat RPM list and can ask over there, please?

It seems that bash requires itself because of it's post-install and 
pre-uninstall scripts. The scripts are run via /bin/sh, which, as luck 
would have it is a link...
created by the bash rpm. ;)
So, bash requires /bin/sh, which is a file owned by the bash package.

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