On Monday, 07 November 2005, at 22:39:10 (+0100), Toralf Lund wrote: > >Requires: package_a, package_b OR package_c OR package_d > > > >Is it possible? If so - how is the exact syntax? > > Like someone else said, this is not possible. I've always wanted it, > too, though. The virtual package mechanism is useful in many cases, but > there are situations where you don't have (or don't want to have) any > control at all over the "provides" info of the base packages and can't > rely on a sensible virtual package setup being there already. Perhaps we > should add an RFE... This is not strictly correct. Please see the following: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114338 This feature will be in rpm 4.4.3, so this would work: Requires: package_a Requires(hint): package_b, package_c, package_d The technique is not identical to the logical OR, but it does provide optional dependencies. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are times it seems to me I'm sharing you with memories. I feel it in my heart, but I don't show it. And then there's times when you look at me as though I'm all that you can see. Those times I don't believe it's right; I know it." -- O-Town, "All or Nothing" _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
