[CentOS] rpm requires logic

Leon Fauster leonfauster at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 14 15:09:22 UTC 2015


Am 14.12.2015 um 15:16 schrieb Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:00:09PM +0100, Leon Fauster wrote:
>> Exists the possibility to define an RPM requires 
>> statement with a logic? Like:
>> Requires: mysql-server OR mysql55-mysql-server
>> MTAs like postfix have "Provides: MTA" to provide 
>> such facility. I do not see such possibility for 
>> DB packages ...
> 
> Not in the RPM in CentOS, and probably not for a long time. The
> upstream RPM now has this feature, but we're not even using it in
> Fedora yet. See 
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-February/195743.html



Nice to read this. Thanks for the pointer!

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