[Fedora-packaging] Re: Allowing only one package to provide a virtual capability

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Apr 29 09:37:29 UTC 2009


"Alan Evans" <alan.evans at secure-24.com> writes:

> I am trying to create a few packages that all provide a virtual
> capability but would like to allow only one of these packages to be
> installed at a time.  
> ...
> Anyone know how to accomplish this or if this is the wrong list can you
> direct me to a better resource?

%package a
Provides:  foo(%name) = a
Conflicts: foo(%name) < a
Conflicts: foo(%name) > a



Enrico




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