Re: rpm-3.0 works, rpm-4.0.3 does NOT

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Re: rpm-3.0 works, rpm-4.0.3 does NOT, paul company said (at...:

>Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, URL is optional.
>>
>> "accepts" != "works"
>>
>
>Don't you think "accepts" should = "works"?
>And an appropriate (accurate and precise) error message should be printed.
>I guess spec file error checking comes in release 4.0.4 :-)

Read what Jeff wrote again.  He's saying that

Requires:	popt-1.6.4

means "my package requires a package named (exactly) popt-1.6.4"

while what *you* really want is

Requires:	popt = 1.6.4

which means "my package requires a package named popt, and it requires
version 1.6.4 of that package"

He can't blithely flag

Requires:	popt-1.6.4

as an error, because someone may have chosen to name a package
`popt-1.6.4'.

Tim
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