Re: Short RPM question

[Carwyn Edwards <carwyn carwyn com>]

Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > When I saw that an update for slang was available, I issued an apt-get
> > install slang, and thought that it would pull slang-devel too. It didnt:
> > # rpm -qR slang-devel
> > slang = 1.4.9
> >    
>
> You are getting confused.
>  

Nope, you are :-) The

"I issued an apt-get install slang, and thought that it would pull 
slang-devel too."

.. is a red herring. He already has slang _and_ slang-devel installed 
and expected the dep resolution on "apt-get install slang" to force an 
upgrade of slang-devel too. Because the dep in slang-devel is only on 
the version and not the release of slang it didn't force the update.

The question was - should the slang-devel "Requires:" specify just a 
version dep or both version and release? Peronally I think you're better 
off with a full epoch:version-release dep between the devel->parent as 
quite often build time options are enough to mangle autogenerated 
development material.

Carwyn