Explicit rpm requires

[Matthew D Truch]

> > I used to use the following line in my kst-fits subpackage to explicitly
> > require the exact version of cfitsio that kst was built against (as
> > cfitsio does explicit version checking and will refuse to run
> > otherwise).
> > 
> > Requires:   cfitsio = %(rpm -q cfitsio --qf %{V})
> 
> You've apparently never heard spot's "rpm" talk, which includes something
> like:
> thou shalt not envoke rpm from within a specfile

I've never had the pleasure of hearing or meeting anyone else on Fedora
in person, but sounds like it would be a useful talk to check out.  

> I was about to suggest you could use the output of:
> pkg-config --modversion cfitsio
> but that seems to be broken in cfitsio.pc (returns 3.006 on my F-10 box).

Well, that's a bug that is probably my fault.  Regardless of how I fix
the initial .spec issue, I need to fix cfitsio's .pc file.  

-- 
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. -- Einstein."
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Matthew Truch
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
matt at truch.net
http://matt.truch.net/
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