Another round of testing calls. (redhat/openssh.spec)

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, James Ralston wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > 3) Building appears to rely on the existance of openssl >= 0.9.6
> > (OPENSSL_free function).  Mark the requirement there.
> 
> Don't say:
> 
>     Requires: openssl >= 0.9.6
> 
> Say:
> 
>     Requires: openssl
>     Conflicts: openssl < 0.9.6
> 
> The former means "this package requires openssl, and will work with
> any version of openssl from 0.9.6 on, through the rest of eternity".
> That's not what you mean.

It can be intepreted like that, sure.

I interpret it: "this package requires openssl, and will work with any 
version of openssl from 0.9.6 on until further notice (that is, a new 
version of openssh is released)".

Please note that in addition, openssh keeps track of the dynamic library 
revision automatically.


> The latter means "this package requires openssl, but doesn't work with
> versions of openssl less than 0.9.6".  That's what you mean.

This is slightly better, but I don't see the real point; double the number 
of different dependencies are required, and isn't a common practise.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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