Eric Reid - Sun ISV Engineering wrote: > Christian Kelly wrote: >> Eric Reid - Sun ISV Engineering wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> Is there some explanation as to what the 'Requires' operator >>> does/assumes in the spec file? The submitted Drupal packages have >>> dependencies on SUNWapch22, and therefore spec file has this line: >>> >>> Requires: SUNWapch22 >>> >>> >>> When the package is installed from SJ's /pending, however, >>> SUNWapch22 isn't installed from /release (and, yes, /release is one >>> of my valid authorities). >>> >>> What might I be missing here? >>> >>> Thx/ERR >>> >> >> Requires will add a runtime dependency between your package and >> apch22, meaning, when you install your IPS package, it will install >> apch22 as well. > That is exactly what I have intended, but am not seeing in practice. > No errors, either.
Can you send around your spec file? Have you submitted it to jucr already? _Christian >> >> BuildRequires will add a build-time dependency on apch22, meaning, >> the package will need to be installed on the system before it can be >> built. >> >> If you use the former, nothing will happen at build time. If you use >> the latter, when you go to build the package, you'll see an error >> saying that the build failed because apch22 was not installed. >> >> _Christian > >
