On 07/18/2012 01:01 AM, Scott Gonyea wrote:
Shouldn't the nc RPM "provides" the netcat utility?
Probably, but not necessarily and regardless, that doesn't help answer
the question. The point is that the nc RPM on RHEL does not provide
"netcat". Whether it should or not and what it should be called is
debatable.
I have the same problem with required the "jre" because Sun's RPMs don't
give adequate provides information. The jre RPM provides "jre" and the
jdk RPM provides "jdk". The jdk RPM though doesn't provide "jre" even
though in reality it does include the jre. The openjdk RPMs (at least
from RHEL) note that they provide "jre" and also "java", which is
probably how it should be done.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM, doc wrote:
For Debian packages, their Depends: tag allows for an "or" condition
during installation, such as
Depends: a, b, c | d, e
Does something like that exist for the requires: tag in RPM?
Google hasn't been much help. This situation is I have one rpm
that I want to use for SuSE and CentOS/RedHat. The problem is on
CentOS/RedHat the requirement is "nc." On SuSE, nc is know as
"netcat."
Hence, I'm looking for something similar to the following:
requires: nc | netcat
I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is no. See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2139621/how-can-i-make-an-rpm-depend-on-package-a-or-package-b.
Quoting from Josh Kelly's post:
"The standard way to do this is via virtual provides: the providing RPMs
each state that they provide a virtual package, and the dependent RPM
requires that virtual package. So, in your example, vim and emacs both
Provides: text-editor, and your package would Requires: text-editor.
If the packages that you're depending on don't provide an appropriate
virtual package, you could probably hack around this by making up your
own. Make dummy my-package-vim-mode and my-package-emacs-mode RPMs that
Requires: vim and Requires: emacs, respectively, and Provides:
my-package-text-editor, then have your package Requires:
my-package-text-editor."
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