Re: Dependancies

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com> writes:
> OK, I'm sending this out to a couple of places, since I'm curious how
> others handle this.  I just grabbed the latest bonobo release, and fired
> up the build on it for a new RPM.  A little ways into configure, it
> fails stating "ORBit 0.5.12 or later required".  Now, in the case of
> bonobo, I usually let the ORBit dependancy get picked up through oaf
> (oaf requires ORBit, bonobo requires oaf, therefor bonobo requires
> ORBit).  In this case that seems to break down, since the latest oaf
> doesn't actually require the latest ORBit.  I suppose I can put explicit
> release requirements into the oaf rpm (build an oaf-0.6.7-2 which
> explicitly requires ORBit-0.5.12 or newer), but I wasn't sure if there
> was a better way.  Any thoughts?

I would do the requirement for a specific release, FWIW.

Havoc