[Mageia-dev] rpmlib(TildeInVersions)

Thu Dec 27 17:56:01 CET 2012

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Christiaan Welvaart
+<cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:
+> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+>
+>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Charles A Edwards <CAE at eslrahc.com>
+>> wrote:
+>>>
+>>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:54:16 +0000
+>>> Pascal Terjan wrote:
+>>>
+>>>>> Or fix the package to not use a tilde in provides :)
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> This is an automatic provides from the version in pkg-config file
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> Then why not use
+>>> define _provides_exceptions
+>>
+>>
+>> This provides is correct and may be used by other packages, I see no
+>> reason to remove it
+>>
+>> Old rpm accepts it
+>>
+>> New rpm accepts it and handles it slightly better
+>>
+>> I don't really see a reason to forbid installing the package with an
+>> old version rpm if it was built with the new rpm given that the
+>> produced rpm is exactly the same apart from this added
+>> rpmlib(TildeInVersions) fake dependency and it would work perfectly
+>> fine without it.
+>
+>
+> AFAICT a Requires: pkgconfig(ftgl) < 2.1.3 will be rejected by old rpm but
+> matched by new rpm. We may need to backport this feature.
+
+Yes but the provides was already there on Mageia 2 and at least will
+work find if something requires unversionned pkgconfig(ftgl)
+(and 2.1.3~rc5 is likely to have 2.1.3 API so < 2.1.3 not matching is
+a good thing :) )
+