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Markus Falb wrote:

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

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It seems that a package is now added to perl in Centos 5.3 that was not there before.

So a dependency on perl-MIME-Base64 will fail because that package now seems to colide with perl itself. (SIGHHHH)

How can I change my spec file to list the requirement only for Centos/RHEL 5.x where x < 3?

hmm. strange enough: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) # rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(MIME::Base64)' perl-5.8.8-15.el5_2.1

maybe the conditional requirement is not necessary. try a: Require: perl(MIME::Base64)

That is not valid.

error: line 30: Unknown tag: 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.

Hugo.

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Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

Markus Falb wrote:

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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...)