[install-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:57 -0500, James Carlson wrote:
> The existing rule is that you need to build on a system that is at
> least as old as what you plan to support.  You can then test for that
> minimum system version and (because libraries are carefully designed
> to be stable ;-}) run on any newer version.

Exactly.  But how do I express this as a package dependency?
In other words, what stops users from installing my package
on a system that is older than the oldest I plan to support?

Laca