Help with requires

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 02 May 2009 11:23:15 -0500, Eric wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
> > I'm having problems with igraph and python-igraph.
> > 
> > igraph builds igraph-devel
> > python-igraph needs igraph-devel.
> > 
> > I'm assuming python-igraph needs the same version of igraph.
> > 
> > How should this be encoded?
> > 
> > Right now, I have
> > 
> > -------- igraph.spec
> > %package devel
> > Provides: %{name}-devel-%{version}
> 
> You shouldn't need to explicitly do this, this comes automatically.

No, it doesn't.

The one you have in mind is

  Provides: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}

that is also automatic for every sub-package's %package name.