Re: [gnome-db] epoch and spec file for libgda

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 00:54 -0400, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
> Hi,
> I was curious why installing libgda and libgda-devel as rpms claimed
> dependency problems. Basically libgda-devel would claim libgda wasn't
> install when in fact it was. This problem exists for 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 and
> may exist in other versions (I've only checked those 2). A --nodeps can
> be used to force the install, but that's just avoiding the issue.
> 
> After various attempts at building the rpms from scratch I focused on
> epoch. Commenting it out in the libgda spec file got things to install
> correctly. Goggling for epoch I found that --promoteepoch can get things
> to install. But I think the proper thing to do is to change a Requires
> in the devel package
> 
> from:
> 
> Requires:         %name = %{version}
> 
> to:
> 
> Requires:         %name = %{epoch}:%{version}
> 
> I've tested this and it works for me. 
> 
hmm, I'm not sure we really want to use epoch here. Can anyone with more
RPM knowledge comment on this?

cheers