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| author | bsiegert <bsiegert> | 2013-08-24 16:55:21 +0000 |
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| committer | bsiegert <bsiegert> | 2013-08-24 16:55:21 +0000 |
| commit | a46b9abb9164af264377fe1753b13309b94168e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 60c9cbd82d9aa151c623e887cacd6b05b59bf053 /doc/guide | |
| parent | 668cb5580876c2a6dc840881e9bccdca0bcc6acd (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-a46b9abb9164af264377fe1753b13309b94168e2.tar.gz | |
Explain how to do OR dependencies. Requested by gdt in PR/26464, not even
ten years ago.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guide/files/fixes.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml b/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml index f003a158abe..1c85746e4a1 100644 --- a/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml +++ b/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.122 2013/07/09 21:06:12 wiz Exp $ --> +<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.123 2013/08/24 16:55:21 bsiegert Exp $ --> <chapter id="fixes"> <?dbhtml filename="fixes.html"?> <title>Making your package work</title> @@ -444,6 +444,20 @@ DEPENDS+= ImageMagick>=6.0:../../graphics/ImageMagick linkend="security-handling"/> for more information.</para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>If the package depends on either one of two (or more) + packages, specify the <quote>pre-req-package-name</quote> as a + comma-separated list between curly braces.</para> + + <para>As an example, take a package that depends on the Perl + <quote>version</quote> module, which has been part of Perl + itself since version 5.10.0. This either/or dependency is + expressed as:</para> + + <programlisting> +DEPENDS+= {perl>=5.10.0,p5-version-[0-9]*}:../../devel/p5-version + </programlisting> + </listitem> </orderedlist> <para>If your package needs files from another package to build, |