chris.stone(a)gmail.com ("Christopher Stone") writes:
> > ES> Such Requires: do not make sense nowadays. The
ability to require
> > ES> a special program version was removed some time ago from rpm.
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't quite parse what Enrico has written here; it
> > looks like that statement indicates that versioned requirements don't
> > work in RPM, which I don't think is the case.
> >
> > Enrico, could you (or anyone else who understands the issue) elaborate
> > a bit?
> ...
Okay, now I'm _really_ confused. So you are saying rpm can handle
epochs properly now?
No
That's great, so why should we remove version requirements from
our
spec files now that rpm properly handles epochs?
Ok; a more realistic example: you have an application for Fedora
Extras which requires bind, version 9.3 or later. What would you
write?
a) Requires: bind >= 9.3?
b) Requires: bind >= 24:9.3?
When your answer is a): this requirement would be fulfilled by FE3 with
its bind 9.2.1 too, so this answer would be wrong.
When your answer is b): what would you gain with it? Epochs are a
per-environment thing and not bound to program versions. E.g. SuSE or
Mandriva might have bind-1:9.4 packages. Because the Fedora Extras
packages are for a specific environment (FE4, FE5, devel) only, you
can be sure that the needed program versions are available there and
the explicit version is not needed.
Enrico