Short RPM question

Carwyn Edwards carwyn at carwyn.com
Tue Nov 23 14:05:28 UTC 2004


Tom Diehl wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
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>>Hi all
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>>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
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>You are getting confused.
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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




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