[Rpm-maint] Requires: alternatives?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Mon Mar 17 07:37:34 UTC 2008


On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> Is there a way to specify alternatives for a Requires: ?
>
> I build a package the requires either python-zope-interface or
> python-zopeinterface (depending upon Fedora or OpenSuSE).

If they have a common provide or a file name, you can require that instead 
of the package name. That's the only means to achieve alternative aka 
or-dependencies in rpm.

 	- Panu -



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