tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jason L Tibbitts III) writes: > ES> Such Requires: do not make sense nowadays. The ability to require > ES> a special program version was removed some time ago from rpm. > > Unfortunately I can't quite parse what Enrico has written here; it > looks like that statement indicates that versioned requirements don't > work in RPM, which I don't think is the case. > > Enrico, could you (or anyone else who understands the issue) elaborate > a bit? Some years ago, you could write | Requires: foo > 2.1 which would be fulfilled by foo=0:2.1 but not by foo=42:1.0. Then, rpm was changed to interprete the statement above as | Requires: foo > 0:2.1 So, program version 1.0 packaged with an epoch of '42' would be allowed. Therefore, versioned requirements make sense in a special environment only where you exactly know possible EVR values. Enrico
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