requirements based on application version

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue Mar 24 01:47:22 UTC 2009


Adam Stokes wrote:

> 
> I'll look into this virtual provides and see if it meets my needs.

Either the rpm macros will pick it up or they don't.

Example -

[root at jerusalem CentOS]# rpm -qp --provides 
python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
_sqlite.so()(64bit)
python-sqlite = 1.1.7-1.2.1

The python-sqlite package provides _sqlite.so() - for packages that use 
it, they may pick up that it requires _sqlite.so() automatically, so 
specifying

Requires: python-sqlite

would be redundant.

> However, I'm assume this is something that would pop up regularly
> especially in languages such as python which tends to shift their
> modules around every release : (
> 
> 




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