RPM meta package - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

From Jeremiah Penery
Subject RPM meta package
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Msg-id 551AC5E9.8040204@redskytech.com
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I have a package which previously depended on postgresql92-odbc, but I
would like to be able to upgrade that without explicitly changing the
dependency, for all future versions.  Maybe something like "depends:
postgresql-odbc > 9".

The various postgresql-libs RPMs provide this - i.e., I can install
postgresql94-libs and it satisfies any dependency for postgresql-libs.
But the only RPM that satisfies the dependency for postgresql-odbc is an
old one:

> yum provides postgresql-odbc
postgresql-odbc-08.04.0200-1.el6.x86_64 : PostgreSQL ODBC driver
Repo        : base

Is there some reason that postgresqlxx-odbc RPMs don't provide the
virtual package for postgresql-odbc, so that whatever version I have
installed will fulfill the dependency?

Thanks,
Jeremiah


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