Re: Yum does not respect RPM dependency version constraints

Le 16/12/2014 16:29, James Antill a =E9crit :
>   Using two requires to specify a range isn't used much, as there are a
> lot of problems with it ... but it should work, and we do have tests
> for it. However the second thing "X =3D ver" is used a _lot_, so if
> that's not working then it's very likely that the requires/provides
> aren't what you think they are.
>   The first thing I'd look at is to make sure the package being
> installed doesn't also provide something more than the simple
> <name =3D version> you get by default. After that the next culprit is
> probably epochs.
>

Thank you for the tips. After inspecting requires/provides more closely, =

I noticed that unlike other packages, PKG2 had a "Provides: PKG2" line =

in its spec file (without any version). It seems that since all versions =

of PKG2 had it, yum picked the most recent one every time, no matter =

what specific version PKG1 required.

I removed the "Provides: PKG2" line, rebuilt all packages, recreated the =

repository and now dependencies are resolved correctly.

Thanks,
Fabien.