rpms/proftpd/devel proftpd.spec,1.45,1.46

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Tue Apr 14 16:05:05 UTC 2009


Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
> Matthias Saou wrote:
>> +# We'll need to find a better way to do this once RHEL6 comes out

> A "better way" that I use is:
> BuildRequires: /usr/include/tcpd.h
> Works everywhere.

I think this is discouraged by guidelines because it makes the depsolver
work *much* harder to figure out which package the require actually
resolves as.  At least I know I've been told to avoid it when practical.

Of course, maybe fixing that is just a small performance fix in rpm ...

			regards, tom lane




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