Bug 506757

Summary:	Whitespace is required around '=' sign in Requires directives
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Peter Lemenkov 2009-06-18 15:26:24 UTC

These syntactically correct Requires directives producing missing dependencies (see subpackage demo):

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/openscada/devel/openscada.spec?revision=1.4&view=markup

Requires:%{name}-ARH-DBArch=%{version}-%{release}
Requires:%{name}-ARH-FSArch=%{version}-%{release}
Requires:%{name}-ARH-SQLite=%{version}-%{release}

After adding whitespace around '=' sign, the issue was gone. This should be either reported upstream and fixed, or described in docs. Unfortunately, I cannot find the description of this issue in docs.

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2009-06-18 16:58:27 UTC

See /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/dependencies, or in a bit nicer format: http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Dependencies: "Spaces are required around the numeric operator to separate the operator from the package name."

This has always been the case, and changing it would only introduce a spec-file incompatibility for something that makes the spec less readable.