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Re: Filtering automagically generated dependencies

From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>
Date: Fri 05 Oct 2007 - 13:59:02 CEST
Message-Id: <DA0207BF-ADC6-4CA9-AFD6-6C1F330CD9A6@mac.com>

On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Thursday 04 of October 2007, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> I know there have been an awful lot of people who want to do this  
>> kind
>> of filtering.  perl, dlopen have been the primary ones I know about.
>
> Also useful for binary stuff like adobe acrobat.
>
> %define         _noautoreq      '^lib.*\.so$' '^lib.*\(VERSION\)$'
>

Want to tell me how the proposed patch filters
    Requires: foo >= 1.2-3
but leaves
    Requires: foo >= 4.5-6
untouched?

The usage case is perl dependencies.

73 de Jeff
Received on Fri Oct 5 13:59:21 2007
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