On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:53:14PM +0100, FlorianFesti wrote: > A Provides or Requires without version number matches any version > number. Thanks. It was intuitively obvious to me that a Requires without a version number would be satisfied by any provider. But I had imagined that a Requires with a version number would need a Provides with matching or higher version number. I didn't realize that a Provides without a version number would match any Requires regardless of the required version. > So the perl package already provides everything that the > bugzilla package needs and there is no reason to pull in perl-CGI > from a Provides: / Requires: POV. Do you encounter any problems > running bugzilla or is this just out of curiosity? No, there were no problems, this is just out of curiosity. This behavior is very unusual, so my rpm update processing logic was not prepared for it. This was in the context of building a script that can partition the various available rpm updates into groups that can be applied separately (for ease of management). So, for example, my system currently has 390 rpms that should be updated, and I am able to break them down into 171 groups of rpms that may be updated separately. Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
