Explicit rpm requires

Matthew D Truch matt at truch.net
Tue Mar 10 22:06:50 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:53:24PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> OK, try something like this instead:
> 
> Requires: cfitsio = %(pkg-config --modversion cfitsio 2>/dev/null || echo 0) 

That seems to work.

To satisfy my curiosity (and understanding), why does that work, when
(at least when I run pkg-config locally) nothing gets spit out on
stderr?  

-- 
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. -- Einstein."
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Matthew Truch
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
matt at truch.net
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