Re: Question about provides lines in spec for postgresqlXX-* - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-yum

From Devrim Gündüz
Subject Re: Question about provides lines in spec for postgresqlXX-*
Date
Msg-id 1403092044.3159.12.camel@asus-laptop-03.gunduz.org
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In response to Question about provides lines in spec for postgresqlXX-*  ("..: Mark Sloan :.." <mark.a.sloan@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 17:44 -0600, ..: Mark Sloan :.. wrote:

> In the spec files for postgresql-X.X, I see:
>
>
> Provides:       postgresql
> Provides:       postgresql-server
> Provides:       postgresql-libs
> ...etc
>
>
>
> is there a reason not to use:
>
> Provides:    postgresql = %{version}-%{release}
> Provides:    libpq.so = %{version}-%{release}
> Provides:    postgresql-libs = %{version}-%{release}
> Provides:    postgresql-server = %{version}-%{release}
> ...etc

That is intentional. My *aim* was to satisfy dependencies of the
"postgresql" rpm supplied by RHEL/Fedora and co, for 3rd party stuff,
like LibreOffice or so. That is why there is no version there.

Regards,
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR


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