On 08/10/2011 10:59 AM, James Laska wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 09:24 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> On 08/10/2011 09:18 AM, Martin Krizek wrote: >>> Is there a proper, 'Packaging Guidelines friendly' way to ensure a specific version of python? >>> >>> Is following fine? >>> >>> Requires: python>= 2.6 >>> BuildRequires: python2-devel>= 2.6 >> >> Depends on the context and what you mean exactly by "Specific version of >> python". > > Just adding a bit more context to Martin's post. Specifically in this > case, the code being packaged no longer runs on python 2.4 (RHEL5). So > we were looking for a way packaging method to ensure this wouldn't land > on any RHEL5 systems, where it's not expected to work. I think this will work: Requires: python(abi) > 2.4 It won't prevent the package from being built for RHEL5. but it sure won't install. :) ~tom == Fedora Project -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
