Bug 12300

Summary:	redundant prereq in glibc spec file
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2000-06-15 14:36:02 UTC

The spec file for glibc-2.1.90-17 contains:

Prereq: kernel-headers
Requires: kernel-headers >= 2.2.1

Isn't this redundant?  That is, doesn't the second line imply the first, in
which case the first should be removed?

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-06-15 16:03:15 UTC

I believe it's there in that you can't prereq a particular
*version* of a package.

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2000-08-25 16:16:38 UTC

No, the second line does not imply the first, Prereq means that kernel-headers
must be installed already at the time glibc-devel is being installed, as opposed
to Requires which means the requirement can be fulfilled within the same transaction set.