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Hi Francesco,

On Tuesday 06 August 2013 09:55:06 Francesco Del Degan wrote:
> Playing with RDEPENDS variable i'm facing the needs to
> specify a dependency based on specific version of a package
> (greather than, in my specific case).
> 
> The underlying package managers supports declaring dependencies
> including version relationships, for example:
> 
> Rpm:  Requires: package_xxx >= 1.0.27
> Deb:  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1)
> Okpg: Depends: xfree (>= 6.0), glib2
> 
> Is this feature just missing in yocto or it's explicitly denied
> for some reason?

This should work, in fact we use it (with =) in conjunction with EXTENDPKGV 
when we want to force packages from the same recipe to upgrade in lock-step.

Have you tried adding these specifications to an RDEPENDS value?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre