[Fedora-packaging] Re: Versioned weak dependencies

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:05:04 -0500 Shawn Iwinski shawn.iwinski@gmail.com wrote:

I forgot about this over the US holiday. Any ideas?

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Shawn Iwinski shawn.iwinski@gmail.com wrote:

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How are versioned weak dependencies handled? Can I "Suggests"/"Recommends" min and max versions or can I only supply the main package and use "Conflicts" to enforce version ranges?

For example:

Suggests: pkg >= 1.0
Suggests: pkg < 2.0

or

Suggests: pkg
Conflicts: pkg < 1.0
Conflicts: pkg >= 2.0

it can be done slightly differently

add Provides: pkg(1x) to the pkg spec file for all versions >=1.0 and < 2.0 (then bump to pkg(2x)). And then just use Suggests: pkg(1x) in foo.

Dan