[Mageia-dev] rpmlib(TildeInVersions)

[Christiaan Welvaart]

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.


     Christiaan