[TriLUG] RPM spec file... Requires: init(foo) ??

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 8/17/06, Benjamin Reed <rangerrick at befunk.com> wrote:

> D'oh!  You're right.
>
> However, looking at it, I'm assuming it's kind of like RPMs that provide
> perl(XML::API) or whatever.  It's just a convention used for defining
> certain types of provides/requires.

Eureka!  That's where I've seen it.  Man, it's been a while since
I worked with RPMs.

>
> I expect that wherever that spec file was made, they had custom stuff in
> their find-depends scripts included in RPM to auto-generate init-script
> dependencies, or something else goofy like that.

Yeah, that's very weird.

> In a requires: line, that syntax doesn't mean anything, it's just
> another string.  You could "Provides: shoe(size10)" probably and still
> have it work, and if a package Requires: shoe(size10) it will work.  :)

Ha!  Nice example.

Cheers,
Tanner
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