On Monday 07 July 2008, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Nesreen wrote: > > 1- I wander that upon making a package using RPM software, can I > > assign version/build numbers for each file included in my package , > > No, you cannot. Version/release are assigned only for packages. But you > can have one file per package and then assign version numbers to > particular packages.
Provides: can assign versions to just about anything. File versions could be implemented for example with something like Provides: file(/foo/bar) = 1.0.1 Provides: file(/bar/quux) = 2.0.0 ... > > can I query this version number after installation?(and I assume that > > my package contains set of binaries and database files).? > > Only packages have version/release. Provides: can be queried with --provides (and --whatprovides). _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint