Re: How to 'Require' a version on a certain branch
Rex Dieter <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:52:19 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general |
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Julian Cowley wrote: > I have a question about how to get Require to require a package in a > certain branch rather than a specific version. > > Can I require that a package start with a certain version, but be any > version within that branch? For instance, I want to require version 1.1 > and let 1.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1 satisfy the requirement (but not 1.2, say). > > Is this possible? Not really (afaik). One way to do accomplish something cloes to what you're asking... is to make Package foo include (something like) Provides: foo11 and for Package bar Requires: foo11 -- Rex