PreReq in packaging guidelines

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Aug 26 16:52:52 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:51 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> Actually, PreReq should be replaced by Requires(pre) or Requires(post)
> depending on the scriptlet where the requirement is.

It's not that simple.  One needs to understand what PreReq, Requires,
and Requires(foo) stand for.  See
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-depend-manual-dependencies.html#S3-RPM-DEPEND-FINE-GRAINED
Link also added to the packaging guidelines.




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