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Making Suggestions for dependency resolution



Hi All,

How do I make a suggestion when an rpm dependency is not met?

ie:

My spec file for mypackage-1.0-1.i386.rpm:

Requires: somepackage

I'd like rpm to suggest a full package name for somepackage when the user tries to install the mypackage-1.0-1.i386.rpm

eg:

rpm -ivh mypackage-1.0-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        somepackage is needed by mypackage-1.0-1.i386
suggestion:
        somepackage-0.9-1.i386.rpm

I thought I'd seen this behaviour before when installing rpms but can't seem to find any info on it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mike





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