Le samedi 30 mars 2019 à 09:59 +0000, Tom Hughes a écrit : > On 30/03/2019 08:27, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestion. That may work indeed, depending on rpm > > operator priority. To be sure, you'd need lots of lispy parenthesis > > (as > > the rpm documentation seems to recommend). > > > > ((((x >= 1.3.0) without x = 1.3.2) without (x = 1.3.4)) without (x > > = 1.5.7) > > > > Unfortunately both solutions (no parenthesis, cross fingers, lots > > of > > parenthesis, sure result) are quite human unfriendly. > > The page I saw was explicit that repeated and/or didn't need > parens and I assumed that extended to with/without which were > introduced more recently: > > https://rpm.org/user_doc/boolean_dependencies.html#nesting Alsmost all the examples here are without version qualifiers, it's not clear what is their precedence WRT the other operators > > > So I'm going to try > > > > ((x >= 1.3.0) without ((x = 1.3.2) or (x = 1.3.4) or (x = 1.5.7))) > > > > which is sure to work semantically, and is more regular and human- > > friendly > > Does that work, given that or allows different packages to > match different branches of the condition? If rpm honors the global parenthesis around the or block it should (famous last words) -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
