Logical 'or' for package dependencies

[Jason Pyeron]

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> rarob at travelinglightfarm.net
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:34
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> Subject: RE: Logical 'or' for package dependencies
> 
> Sorry to reply out of sync, I'm only on digest email...
> 
> To followup a bit on my question about RPM and Java dependencies....
> 
> Currently our product requires a Java 1.6 runtime package to 
> be installed.
>  We've tested with SUN/Oracle Java, OpenJDK, and IBM's s390x 
> package on Linux VMs on zSeries.  While I  believe I can find 
> a common 'provides'
> feature between OpenJDK and SUN/Oracle, the s390x *sdk* 
> (which we use to require, and is still installed on our dev 
> box) only has 2 'features' when queried with 'rpm -q --provides':
>   libjvm.so
>   ibm-java-s390-sdk = 6.0.-5.0

Create a second (IBM Java compatibility, having no files) rpm, which provides
Java with version which requires ibm-java-s390-sdk with version.

rpm -ivh my.rpm ibm-jdk-compat.rpm

> 
>   So I still have a question as to the best way to have my 
> rpm correctly do a 'Requires:' line for any of the three Java 
> flavors.  Somehow I doubt I can convince the IBM group to 
> include some more features on their packaging.  For now we 
> mention in our documentation that we
> *require* a Java package of at least version 1.6, and our 
> configuration script looks in 'well known' locations for it.  

Yea, that is a bad idea.

> Not ideal.
> 
> -R
> 
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