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vpram86
vpram86

Reputation: 6000

Requiring either openjdk6 or openjdk7 in RPM spec

I am building an RPM which right now marks openjdk-6 as requirement; I would like to add support for openjdk-7 as well; but I am not sure how would I modify the spec file to look for either openjdk6 or openjdk7 as requirement. I read about the concept of virtual package and I am trying to use it. I am adding 

Requires: libjvm.so

in my spec; and checking for either 6 or 7 in my %pre section. But the built RPM package is not recognizing libjvm.so .

error: Failed dependencies:
        libjvm.so is needed by myapp.x86_64

I tried rpm -q --provides java-1.6.0-openjdk and it lists

libjvm.so()(64bit)
libjvm.so(SUNWprivate_1.1)(64bit)

Am I doing the virtual package dep wrong? Is there a more cleaner/obvious way to mention either or JDK6/7 as dependency?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 994

Answers (1)

Forrest
Forrest

Reputation: 1440

If you're already checking for openjdk 6 or 7 in the pre section, why don't you just set a variable to populate the requires based on the value returned by your check? If openjdk wasn't so poorly named with the value right in the middle, you could use Requires: openjdk >= 1.6, but I don't think that will work because they decided to put the version value right in the middle.

Upvotes: 1

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