On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 16:26 +0100, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > Greetings list - this is my first post. > Please could anyone enlighten me as to the precise meaning of : > 'Provides: X > %evr' > or > 'Provides: X >= %evr' > in a .spec file , where %evr is some [epoch:]version[-release] version > specification of X ? > I know what > 'Provides: X = %evr' > means, but I can't understand what the use of '>=' or '>' is for a Provide - > does it mean that no other package may ever provide a version of X greater > than %evr if the package providing the 'Provides: X >= %evr' is installed ? > I've searched the documentation in Maximum RPM and at the Fedora RPM Guide, > but there doesn't seem to be any on this issue . It's easiest to just think of it as two range operation, and not to map it to a real thing. So on one side you have: FOO Provide: X > 4 ...and then on the other side you have: W Require: X = 2 X Require: X = 8 Y Require: X > 2 Z Require: X < 10 ...here W is the only package whos require wouldn't be satisfied by FOO. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
