Re: Dependency on rpmlib

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:26:20PM +0200, Andrea Sciaba' wrote:
> Hello,
> I am building some rpms using version 3.0.5, and I have found out that 
> if I specify explicitly a particular version of a required package in 
> the Prereq: tag, like for example:
> 
> Prereq: anaphe-cms = 3.6.6
> 
> the rpm is built with this dependency:
> 
> rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
> 
> while if I use
> 
> Prereq: anaphe-cms
> 
> that dependency is not there.
> 
> Can anybody explain it?

Sure. Before rpm-3.0.2, rpm did not support versioned PreReq:'s.

When a possibly incompatible feature is used when building a
package, then rpm adds a tracking dependency in order to associate
the new-fangled feature with a version of rpm that can handle the feature.

73 de Jeff

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