[Fedora-packaging] How to make a Provides based on package contents?

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "OP" == Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> writes:

OP> I went with octave(%{octave_api}) rather than octave(api) =
OP> {octave_api} because I was getting errors when starting to build a
OP> package in mock that octave(api) was not being set to anything
OP> (during the buildroot setup phase - octave-config is unavailable
OP> there).  If someone can point me around that, that would be great.

You just have to make sure it's defined to something like 0 so that
the specfile is syntactically correct.  Usually this is done with
something like:

%{!?octave_api: %define octave_api %(octave-config -p API_VERSION || 0)}

assuming that even parses.

 - J<