On Jan 24, 2005, "Sean" <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If so, is this annotation really required? I think the following rules > accomplish the same thing: > If the currently installed version has the same missingok annotation as is > given in the new rpm, then install each dependency only if an early > version is currently installed (handle each such dependecy like rpm -F). > Otherwise, install each dependant rpm as if it were required, (ie. handle > like rpm -U, it must represent new functionality, or been recently made > optional). Cool, I hadn't considered this possibility. Way to go. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
