RPM building section of RHL's developer guide

[Thomas Dodd]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> And yes, I'm nitpicking, very much so.  See below, and beware, this is
> more verbose than I would like it to be.  Sorry.

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> Just for the record, here is the exact output of the case above, on a
> Shrike box after upgrading to rpm-4.2.1-0.15.fdr.1:
> 
>   # rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}\n" glib
>   glib-1:1.2.10-10
>   # rpm -Uvh glib-devel-1.2.10-10.i386.rpm
>   error: Failed dependencies:
>           glib = 1.2.10 is needed by glib-devel-1.2.10-10
> 
> Yes, *I know* there's a missing "1:" in this particular
> glib-devel-to-glib-dependency but why isn't the error message the
> following, IMO less confusing one?
> 
>   error: Failed dependencies:
>           glib = 0:1.2.10 is needed by glib-devel-1.2.10-10

Just to nitpick a little more, shouldn't that be:

   error: Failed dependencies:
           glib = 0:1.2.10 is needed by glib-devel-0:1.2.10-10

For completeness?

	-Thomas