Re: Question about require/provide/obsolete

Nevermind. Got this sorted out (more or less) on irc. For now I'm just
going to store the data as one field in the db and come up with a scheme
for looking up resolutions later.


On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 10:38, Brad Smith wrote:
> Are provide/require/obsolete fields allowed to contain non-numeric
> characters other than '-'? For example, can an rpm require something
> with version 2.4-1fr instead of just 2.4-1?
> 
> I'm working on adjusting Fedora Tracker so it stores this info and would
> like to be able to display, eg, the requires for a package such that
> each require is a link. When clicked, the link would initiate a search
> that returns packages whose provides meet the requirement. Needless to
> say, such a search will be a lot easier if I can split the "version"
> into two int fields.
> 
> Suggestions?
> --Brad
> 
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