Bug 19100 - !(5.6.0>=5.00503) == true?
Summary: !(5.6.0>=5.00503) == true?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Whiteboard:
: 22377 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-14 07:41 UTC by Michael Schwendt
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-14 07:41:09 UTC
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Description Michael Schwendt 2000-10-14 07:41:05 UTC
$ rpm -q perl
  perl-5.6.0-9

A package built with

  Requires: perl >= 5.00503

in the spec file fails to install:

  error: failed dependencies:
          perl >= 5.00503 is needed by perl-MailTools-1.13-3

The same package built with:

  Requires: perl >= 5.005

installs fine. This strange behaviour is new with RPM 4.0. Why is it like
that?

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-10-15 22:57:18 UTC
The behavior is new with the introduction of an epoch in the perl-5.6.0 package
and has
little to do with rpm-4.0.

The recommended solution is to write the dependency with an explicit epoch
	Requires:  perl >= 0:5.00503




Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2000-12-17 11:49:09 UTC
*** Bug 22377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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