what's with the commas in the cyrus-imapd release tag?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Aug 4 04:58:02 UTC 2004


Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta at gmail.com) said: 
> rpm -q --provides dovecot
> config(dovecot) = 0.99.10.9-1,FC3,1
> dovecot = 0.99.10.9-1,FC3,1
> 
> so what we are saying here is... 
> rpm understand provides with commas
> but doesn't understand requires with commas.
> 
> I'm getting a hint of inconsistency here between how provides and
> requires are parsed.

Those provides come directly from the version and release,
not a direct Provides: line.

Bill





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