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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] rpmlib(TildeInVersions)</H1>
    <B>Pascal Terjan</B> 
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<PRE>On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Christiaan Welvaart
&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cjw at daneel.dyndns.org</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Charles A Edwards &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">CAE at eslrahc.com</A>&gt;
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:54:16 +0000
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Pascal Terjan wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Or fix the package to not use a tilde in provides :)
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
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</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> This is an automatic provides from the version in pkg-config file
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Then why not use
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> define _provides_exceptions
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> This provides is correct and may be used by other packages, I see no
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> reason to remove it
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Old rpm accepts it
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> New rpm accepts it and handles it slightly better
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I don't really see a reason to forbid installing the package with an
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> old version rpm if it was built with the new rpm given that the
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> produced rpm is exactly the same apart from this added
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> rpmlib(TildeInVersions) fake dependency and it would work perfectly
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> fine without it.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> AFAICT a Requires: pkgconfig(ftgl) &lt; 2.1.3 will be rejected by old rpm but
</I>&gt;<i> matched by new rpm. We may need to backport this feature.
</I>
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 &lt; 2.1.3 not matching is
a good thing :) )
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