On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:53 +0200, Christian.Rohrmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "trip your posts"... I mean trim, you include the entire of the previous mail in your top-posted reply - please delete things. > I need a way in which I can specify the architecture of a package in the > SPEC file REQUIRES attribute. The simple answer is this is not doable with current rpm spec syntax. Yes this is currently a limitation, however for the most part as we do automatic ELF based requires addition things just work. For consideration you may wish to file via support requst: http://redhat.com/support/ > Your suggest solution, which was to specify libraries or specific files > that are in the the package that I wish to depend upon, instead of > specifiying the name of the package, has serious problems, because possibly > some other package that I don't want to install happens to contain the > library or file that I specified in the SPEC (as I demonstrated > previously.) You can not take a file listing and convert it to a symbol based provides necessarily did you actually use one of the PROVIDES as I suggested. It doesn't seem like you did. > > I literally need to install libstdc++, and specifically the x86_64 version! And I've shown you how to do this... Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
