[OpenAFS] Small suggestion for RH spec file?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:54:28 -0500 (EST)


On 29 Dec 2002, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> Is there a way to depend on something with a prefix? sortof like you can
> depend on another rpm, but not a particular version?

suddenly foo-devel satisfies foo? ;-)

> I'm not sure how all the conflict stuff works with rpm, but could you
> have the base package create an empty CellServDB if none is present. If

this would need to be done carefully to avoid creating a conflict if you
did install a cellservdb package later. honestly, i don't understand
exactly what though.

> you want real functionality, you then would need to install an actual
> cellserv database - either of the two rpms above.