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Here is a silly question: I have the following in my config.sys file:-

REM [ Temporary Directories ] SET TMP=J:\temp SET TEMP=J:\temp SET TMPDIR=J:\temp

So why does this package create a \tmp directory?

Why does it not use the predefined %TMP%?

libc 0.6.3 is shipping with old db and gettext headers, and has the libraries included in the runtime dll.

when db4 4.8 and gettext 0.18 devel packages are installed, this triggers a file conflict with existing files.

rpm/yum (correctly) cannot upgrade files from a different package.

the above headers are then put into a separate subpackage, db1-devel and gettext0-devel.

These packages are declared obsolete by db4-devel and gettext-devel, thus if you install libc-devel, it triggers direct installation of db4-devel and gettext-devel.

This is because yum cannot erase a package and install a new one at the same time, so we cannot declare a virtual package (e.g. db-devel) for them.

This is not the best approach, because original db.h and libintl.h are fine for many packages. But we are not adding new requirements to the installed system because db4.dll and kintl.dll are already a requirement for rpm and other core tools.

It would be nice if rpmbuild could detect if the .spec file uses these macros and automatically add package depenencies on rpm-macros-wps or rpm-macros-warpin, respectively.