I have spent all day trying various things and made no progress whatsoever.
I am compiling an rpm package for my application (MyApp.rpm), for RHEL6 64-bit, which requires a third party, 32-bit driver package called aksusbd.rpm. Now, aksusbd.rpm in turn requires compatibility mode, provided on RHEL6 by glibc.i686.rpm.
So somewhere in my spec file for MyApp.rpm I have:
MyApp.spec
Requires: glibc(x86-32)
Requires: aksusbd >= 1.14
What it does during installation (yum install MyApp) is, installs aksusbd first, which fails with no 32-bit compatibility installed. Then just to tease me, immediately after installs glibc. So when its all over I can type
yum install aksusbd
and it works this time because glibc is now installed.
How on earth do I teach it to do better than this!
(growl)
You can follow Aaron's suggestion and tweak the third party RPM you have with rpmrebuild. It allows you to modify the requires spec of the RPM package:
rpmrebuild --package -n --edit-requires <your third party rpm package>
It's a hack but just for the requires tags in the RPM I would not be concerned.