On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:27 +0000, nelson-m-marques@ext.ptinovacao.pt
wrote:
>
> Is there a special reason for having a virtual provides without
> versioning?
PGDG RPMs in RHEL 6 can be installed in parallel, i.e., you can have 8.4
+ on the same machine. OTOH, os supplied RPMs does not have any version
number, and there are lots of packages that need postgresql-libs or
postgresql, etc. We "Provide" version-less packages to satisfy os
dependencies.
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