specfile questions

[Quentin Spencer]

Chuck R. Anderson wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:26:22AM -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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>>I'm preparing a package for octave-forge, which I asked about a couple 
>>of days ago, and I have a question about spec files. Octave-forge is 
>>closely tied to the version of octave that is installed on the system, 
>>so the Requires: part of the spec file should list a specific version. 
>>It would be nice to have a single SRPM that could build on multiple 
>>versions of Fedora, which may have different versions of octave 
>>installed. Is there a way to do "Requires: octave = <whatever is 
>>installed right now>"?
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>How is the package tied to the specific installed version?  Through 
>dynamically linked libraries?  If so, don't put any Requires: at all, 
>just let rpm find the requirements automatically.
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It installs in a directory tree that contains octave's version in the 
name, and it contains some binary loadable modules for octave, and the 
ABI can change from one version to another.