[Fedora-packaging] Question regarding min and max dependencies

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 8.3.2013 13:54, Nicolas Mailhot napsal(a):
> Le Ven 8 mars 2013 11:50, Vít Ondruch a écrit :
>> Dne 8.3.2013 10:57, Nicolas Mailhot napsal(a):
>>> Le Jeu 7 mars 2013 16:47, Shawn Iwinski a écrit :
>>>> Is it valid to use 2 requires of the same dependency for min / max
>>>> versions?  For example, I have a package "foo" that depends on package
>>>> "bar" >= 1.0 and also "bar" < 2.0.
>>>>
>>>> I have seen many packages use this:
>>>> Requires: bar >= 1.0
>>>> Conflicts: bar >= 2.0
>>>>
>>>> but I would like to use the following (which may help with finding
>>>> dependencies using repoquery):
>>>> Requires: bar >= 1.0
>>>> Requires: bar < 2.0
>>> That will almost certainly *not* do what you intend, as a system with a
>>> package providing bar 0.9 and another providing bar 3.0 will satisfy
>>> your
>>> rules.
>> And that is no true. Try it. YUM can handle it as expected.
> so it's ok if it fails in rpm but works in yum? (just asking)
>

For me it is OK and for 99,9 % of Fedora users, who installs packages 
using YUM, it is OK as well, I would say.

Vít