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Re: Naive question: boolean dependency



On Feb 5, 2008 8:00 AM, Tony Earnshaw <tonni hetnet nl> wrote:

> This cost me about 3 minutes of imaginative Googling:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

I have bought the book a few years ago: i talk about RPM 4.1. The online version lacks some chapter also.

MAXIMUN RPM is all about RPM  3.0.x - used in redhat 6.2 if i remember correctly and yes, also on AIX 5.3

Today we have at least 4.4.3.x.y.z(www.rpm.org), Mandriva also 4.4.6. Some evolution and new features have occurred from 4.1

>The above hasn't anything to do with Boolean switches but is given with
the Requires: and/or BuildRequires: definitions.

Probably I spoke badly, but I wanted to ask the question as raised by this comparison chart
 http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/#foot11


> Yes. grep -ir for examples in /usr/lib/rpm.

I haven't found any, but probably i haven't looked well.


I have
On Feb 5, 2008 8:00 AM, Tony Earnshaw <tonni hetnet nl> wrote:
devzero2000 skrev, on 04-02-2008 11:40:

> I have not found recent documentation, so this post.

This cost me about 3 minutes of imaginative Googling:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

I have both this and Maximum on my hard disk and indexed for searching
on single words with swish-e.

> It is  possible to express boolean dependencies in RPM?

Yes. grep -ir for examples in /usr/lib/rpm.

> For example i would like to say that a package  depends on if another
> package is not installaed.
> Or if could express OR dependency, eventually based also on version
> number : e.g.
> as in Requires: (pkg <=1.0.3) | (pkg>=1.9.3)

The above hasn't anything to do with Boolean switches but is given with
the Requires: and/or BuildRequires: definitions.

Best,

--Tonni

--
Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl

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