Re: [Fedora-packaging] Question regarding min and max dependencies

On 03/07/2013 09:47 AM, Shawn Iwinski wrote: > Is it valid to use 2 requires of the same dependency for min / max > versions? For example, I have a package "foo" that depends on package > "bar" >= 1.0 and also "bar" < 2.0. > > I have seen many packages use this: > Requires: bar >= 1.0 > Conflicts: bar >= 2.0 > > but I would like to use the following (which may help with finding > dependencies using repoquery): > Requires: bar >= 1.0 > Requires: bar < 2.0 > If you have access to modify "bar", I'd suggest one way of tackling issues like this is adding a virtual Provides to bar.spec like: Provides: bar1 = %{version}-%{release} So, now you can avoid the above examples you mentioned using just: Requires: bar1 (versioned or not) -- rex -- packaging mailing list packaging(a)lists.fedoraproject.**org <packaging(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/packaging<https://a...