Re: Explicit rpm requires

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:20:11AM -0400, Matthew D Truch wrote:
> > > I used to use the following line in my kst-fits subpackage to explicitly
> > > require the exact version of cfitsio that kst was built against (as
> > > cfitsio does explicit version checking and will refuse to run
> > > otherwise).
> > > 
> > > Requires:   cfitsio = %(rpm -q cfitsio --qf %{V})
> > 
> > You've apparently never heard spot's "rpm" talk, which includes something
> > like:
> > thou shalt not envoke rpm from within a specfile
> 
> I've never had the pleasure of hearing or meeting anyone else on Fedora
> in person, but sounds like it would be a useful talk to check out.  

It really is... here's a link to Spot's presentation at last year's
Red Hat Summit in Boston:

http://spot.fedorapeople.org/Summit2008/GoodRPMPackages-TomCallaway-2008.pdf

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