Re: my package requires mysql OR MySQL, how do I state that in thespec file?

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003, Ron Arts wrote:
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> > Subject says it all.
> > Couldn't find a searchable archive, sorry.
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> AFAIK you can't because RPM (still) does not support alternatives in
> dependencies. But this is a feature I would like to see myself...
>  

Don't hold you breath for alternation on Requires:, there are 
significant legacy
issues wired into the representation of a {N,EVR,Flags} tuples in arrays 
with
implict && on evaluation. Some fixes are worse than living with the problem.

rpm has always had alternation of Provides:, i.e. multiple packages can 
have identical
Provides:. So the basic trick is to add a virtual Provide: to the needed 
packages,
and then have a single, not alternating, Require:.

Another approach is to use a common file path that is in the packages which
will equivalently satisfy a requirement.

There are other approaches, the above 2 are easiest.

73 de Jeff