Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
Markus Falb wrote:
maybe the conditional requirement is not necessary. try a: Require: perl(MIME::Base64)
Because RH makes a habit of including new packages into perl itself and using relative old ones there is a definite need to build a package with an up-to-date version of this.
I understand that. I am irritated (only a little bit) by the fact that MIME-Base64 is not newer in 5.3. It shows the same version at least (3.07). On CPAN there is 3.07 dating from 2005. I could not find a newer one. But back to rpm. Maybe you can add a Version to Requirement:
Requires: perl(MIME::Base64) >= X.XX
And here is a check for centos version:
# check centos version and set macro %{!?old_ver: %define old_ver %(if test `awk '{print $3}' /etc/redhat- release|cut -d'.' -f2` -lt 3 ; then echo "1"; else echo "0"; fi)}
%if %{old_ver} == 1 do something %else do something complete different or not %endif
(i am sure this could be done better, more elegant, etc...)