RPM dependency rationale (and kernel packages)?
Jos Vos
jos at xos.nl
Tue Aug 19 17:36:19 UTC 2003
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:23:11PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Feature, or at least necessity for legacy compatibility.
>
> Before rpm-3.0.2, only Requires: and Conflicts: permitted versions.
>
> In order to implement versioning for PreReq:, Obsoletes: and Provides:,
> some way of not breaking backward<->forward compatibility had to be devised.
I now vaguely remember that this had been discussed years ago...
Despite the possible workaround in the case of the kernel package,
I still suggest to consider changing rpm's behaviour at some point
in time, as it is unlogical, IMHO.
Furthermore, the kernel package does not really use this "feature",
as far as I can see, it would be fine to have version-release in
the provides line too (Arjan: is this true?).
> Add a file requires on a file in the kernel package that has both the
> Version: and Release: appended as suffix, almost every file in the
> package as both V-R appended.
Great hack, thanks! I should have thought of that myself... ;-).
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