Logical 'or' for package dependencies

Jason Pyeron jpyeron at pdinc.us
Wed Oct 13 23:06:41 UTC 2010


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rarob
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 16:22
> Subject: Logical 'or' for package dependencies
> 
> Quick question (I hope).  Suppose you are making a package 
> that requires Java.  Either OpenJDK -or- SUN/Oracle is 
> acceptable.  OpenJDK provides the 'openjdk' package, whereas 
> SUN/Oracle provides 'jre' for the basic runtime.  How would 
> one craft the 'Requires:' line to pass if either (or
> both) is present?

Requires: java

The sun/openjdk rpms should provide it. Are you looking to exclude other
packages that are not Sun/OpenJDK?

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