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

[Ed Blackman]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:00:30PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> 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.

Which wouldn't be a problem (for our purposes) if it advertised that
it provided /bin/sh (and /bin/bash).  But there's no reason to do that
for regular rpm usage, since it can look in the package file list and
see that those files are there, so the requirement is satisfied.

Ed
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