Thank you! I'll try to find a common file. John Craws On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/16/2011 11:31 PM, John Craws wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I couldn't find any good hints on how to achieve the following (if >> possible). >> >> I have created an RPM that works as expected across a number of >> distributions. >> >> I now have to add a new dependency on another package (it already has >> some that work). >> >> The problem is that the package name (and provides) for that required >> package (DejaVu fonts) varies across the distributions (2 for the >> moment) that I am targeting and I could not find any virtual one that >> would work either. >> >> Do I really have to generate two different RPM packages with two >> different 'requires' values even though I require the same >> functionality in both cases (a font available via fontconfig) and the >> rest would be identical? >> >> Any hints? > > If there are no common provides to depend on then there's one option left: a > common filename, IF there is one. If not, then you really need to build > different packages for different distributions. Note that trivial > differences like a single dependency name can usually be handled with > macros, so you'll only have one spec from which the packages for different > distros are built, instead of maintaining fully separate specs for each. > > - Panu - > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
