Re: rpm's treatment of unversioned provides

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 02:51:11PM +, Paul Howarth wrote: > RPM traditionally treats unversioned provides as meaning "any version". > Over on perl-devel list, it's been suggested that this is a bug in rpm. > > Googling around, I can't find any specific rationale for why rpm does > this as op

RE: rpm's treatment of unversioned provides

2011-02-21 Thread pinto.e...@gmail.com
Perhaps, should be most useful to post question as this, interesting as they are, on the rpm mailing list. Just an opinion. Regards -Original Message- From: Petr Pisar Sent: 21/02/2011, 16:43 To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: rpm's treatment of unversioned provides

Re: rpm's treatment of unversioned provides

2011-02-21 Thread Petr Pisar
On 2011-02-21, Paul Howarth wrote: > RPM traditionally treats unversioned provides as meaning "any version". > Over on perl-devel list, it's been suggested that this is a bug in rpm. > > Googling around, I can't find any specific rationale for why rpm does > this as opposed to say providing vers

rpm's treatment of unversioned provides

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Howarth
RPM traditionally treats unversioned provides as meaning "any version". Over on perl-devel list, it's been suggested that this is a bug in rpm. Googling around, I can't find any specific rationale for why rpm does this as opposed to say providing version 0. Can anybody enlighten me? Paul. -- d