If it wasn't clear, I was basically agreeing with what you had said and was
against the "Requires: >= 2.3" entry.

As far as passing an environment variable... I read your original message
but I wasn't too clear on your intent.  Pass it at build time?  Pass it at
install time?  Not sure what you're trying to do exactly.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: CVS: tmda/contrib tmda.spec,1.91,1.92


> Bernard Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If you add a:
> > Requires: python >= 2.3
> >
> > Then there must be a python package on the system (not python2.3
> > like at python.org) and that version must be 2.3 or greater, with no
> > other python package installed.
>
> Right, which is why I said that this wasn't a good idea.
>
> Currently I'm requiring '/usr/bin/python2.3', not a package called
> python.
>
> Thus, you can install a python2.3 package from python.org to satisfy
> the dependency, and not conflict with your other packages.  If your
> python package happens to be v2.3 as in bleeding edge versions of
> Redhat, you are fine as well.
>
> The only question is how to handle things once Python 2.4 becomes
> available.
>
> What do you think about my idea of passing in an environment variable
> to override the /usr/bin/python2.3 requirement?  Have you seen this
> kind of thing done before?
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