As discussed in the computing workshop, we need to get lbpkr to take into
account the provides of packages instead of finding them by package name.
The use cases are:
When checking for which RPM to install lbpkr must first check that no RPM
already provides the requested string in the local RPM db (currently it only uses
the yum DB), therefore pruning the tree as early as possible.
This would allow to have a fake RPM for Externals on AFS, that would just say
it provides the externals (whereas we really take them from the LCG directories).
Look up packages by Provides, this would for example easil;y allow to say that you
want to install Gaudi v25r5 for a given CMTCONFIG...
We should make this easy to do withoput having to look up RPM versions ...
sbinet
commented
10 years ago
https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/LBCORE-663