Re: RPM meta package

On 03/31/2015 09:06 AM, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
> I have a package which previously depended on postgresql92-odbc, but I
> would like to be able to upgrade that without explicitly changing the
> dependency, for all future versions.  Maybe something like "depends:
> postgresql-odbc > 9".
>
> The various postgresql-libs RPMs provide this - i.e., I can install
> postgresql94-libs and it satisfies any dependency for postgresql-libs.
> But the only RPM that satisfies the dependency for postgresql-odbc is an
> old one:
>
>> yum provides postgresql-odbc
> postgresql-odbc-08.04.0200-1.el6.x86_64 : PostgreSQL ODBC driver
> Repo        : base
>
> Is there some reason that postgresqlxx-odbc RPMs don't provide the
> virtual package for postgresql-odbc, so that whatever version I have
> installed will fulfill the dependency?

Not sure.

What distro are you using?

What repo are you pointing at?

>
> Thanks,
> Jeremiah
>
>


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