rpmbuild and dependencies

[Darin Perusich]

hi,

i'm building the package 'sophie' which is dependant on sophos 
anti-virus libsavi. the package builds fine but it does a dependency 
check for libsavi.so, libsavi is not installed as an rpm so it's not 
listed in the rpm databases.

is there a way to get around this, other then installing with --nodeps? 
ideally what i'd like to do if possible is define a %pre that checks for 
libsavi.so in the usual lib locations, if the %pre fails it doesn't 
install and kicks up the "Failed dependencies" error, if %pre passes it 
installs. you could always force the install with --nodeps and or --force.

thanks

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com