Rich dependency failure or PEBCAK?

[brianjmurrell]

If I have a BR (line only broken below for clarity, it's all one long line the actual spec file):

BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 12.1.14.0 or
                 (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 12.0.16.1 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) < 12.1) or
                 (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 11.1.5.2 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec < 12.0) or
                 (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 11.0.10.3 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec < 11.1) or
                 (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 8.1.24.15 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec < 8.2))

and I have installed nv-codec-headers-11.1.5.2-1.el9.noarch which provides:

nv-codec-headers = 11.1.5.2-1.el9
pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) = 11.1.5.2

shouldn't the above BR: allow the build to happen?

I'm actually getting:

Error: 
 Problem: nothing provides requested (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 12.1.14.0 or (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 12.0.16.1 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) < 12.1) or (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 11.1.5.2 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec < 12.0) or (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 11.0.10.3 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec < 11.1) or (pkgconfig(ffnvcodec) >= 8.1.24.15 and pkgconfig(ffnvcodec < 8.2))
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

As an aside, is there any way to actually break long lines like the above in a specfile? Can I use \ for example?

[mlschroe]

Your parens don't match up. There are a couple of ) missing for the sub-expressions. I'm not sure why this could be parsed at all.

Btw, you likely want to use with instead of and, as both the >= and the < should be provided by the same package.

[brianjmurrell]

Your parens don't match up. There are a couple of ) missing for the sub-expressions. I'm not sure why this could be parsed at all.

Doh! Yes, I see.

Btw, you likely want to use with instead of and, as both the >= and the < should be provided by the same package.

Yes, I did do that subsequently to creating this topic. Thanks for the head's up though.

One thing not answered from the original questions:

is there any way to actually break long lines like the above in a specfile?