On Thursday, 21 February 2008, at 16:29:09 (+0100), Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru wrote: > > Please share some. I would love to see them. > > Same interest here! I could be wrong, but you may have missed the subtlety. :) Put more bluntly: "Had you actually grep'd for them yourself, you wouldn't have found any because they don't exist. RPM can't do that." > Again, I would like to do pretty much the same thing (say that a package > requires either a version or another) and tried to adapt the above > Requires: example but instead got this error: > > error: line 17: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': Because you can't do that either. > What exactly are the uses for the underscore and the / characters? Underscores are generally considered "word" characters for historical programmer reasons. / allows file dependencies. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation." -- G'Kar, Babylon 5 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
