[Kolab-devel] Kolab-2.2.3 filters

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Tue Feb 16 04:48:15 CET 2010


On Monday 15 February 2010 02:06:49 pm Richard Bos wrote:
> Op maandag 15 februari 2010 04:13:37 schreef Thomas Spuhler:
> > Another quirk: What is PreReq in the spec file standing for? Mandriva
> >  doesn't  permit it in the spec file.
>
> Internet is your friend ;)
> http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-depend-manual-dependencies.html
> "The PreReq tag is the same as Requires, originally with one additional
> property. Using it used to tell RPM that the package marked as PreReq
> should be installed before the package containing the dependency. However,
> as of RPM version 4.4, this special property is being phased out, and
> PreReq and Requires will soon have no functional differences."

Yea, I discussed it on IRC. I replaced it with Requires(pre)
PreReq is rejected on the Mandriva build server.

-- 
Thomas




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