Re: dependency resolution ?

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 06:57, Peter Bowen wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 06:25, Alex Kramarov wrote:
> > i thought packages should require only capabilities provided by other
> > packages, not other package's files ! am i incorrect ? if i am, what other
> > parts of packages redhat except "provides" and "files" packages can depend
> > on ?
> 
> RPMS can depend on three things:
> 1) Package names.  Sometimes RPM puts these in --provides, sometimes not
> 2) Package "Tokens", which the things that --provides lists
> 3) Packaged files.

Throw in obsoletes and conflicts, and you've got yourself a weekend.


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