Bug 16769

Summary:	rpm-3.0.5-9.6x break dependencies
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Damien Miller <djm>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Damien Miller 2000-08-23 01:18:14 UTC

Binary RPMs built with rpm-3.0.5-9.6x have new dependencies which break
installation on older RPM systems:

error: failed dependencies:
	rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by openssh-2.1.1p5-0.2

This is a real PITA as it forces users to upgrade to the latest rpm
release. IMO this is not good behavior for a minor release of RPM.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-08-24 15:19:43 UTC

Please note that the existence of the rpmlib feature dependency is *not* the
problem. The rpmlib
feature dependency
	rpmlib(VersionedDependencies)
is tracking versioned Prereq and Provides that are not supported in rpm-3.0.2
and earlier.
Remove versions from the Prereq: and Provides: in your package and the rpmlib
feature
dependency will not be automagically generated.