requires with multiple deps but only one required

[damnms]

in debian, there is the meta-package default-jre, in rpm-based distros i did not find anything like that. they split them all like real standalone projects, like java-17-openjdk-headless, java-21-openjdk-headless etc.
Is there any way to do something like
requires('java-17-openjdk-headless' | 'java-21-openjdk-headless')?

[smatvienko-tb]

HI. I just worked out on the similar issue with RPM Java dependencies in my PR thingsboard/thingsboard#13744 for the ThingBoard

simple answer is

requires("(java-17 or java-17-headless or jre-17 or jre-17-headless)") // .or() notation does NOT work in RPM plugin

TL;DR you can find all placeholders available for packages like that

 docker run -it --rm --name rpmtest almalinux:8 bash

dnf install java-17-openjdk-headless -y
 rpm -q --provides java-17-openjdk-headless-1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8.aarch64
config(java-17-openjdk-headless) = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
java-17-headless = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
java-17-openjdk-headless = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
java-17-openjdk-headless(aarch-64) = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
jre-17-headless = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
jre-17-openjdk-headless = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
libsyslookup.so()(64bit)

dnf install java-17-openjdk -y
 rpm -q --provides java-17-openjdk-1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8.aarch64
bundled(freetype) = 2.13.3
bundled(giflib) = 5.2.2
bundled(harfbuzz) = 10.4.0
bundled(lcms2) = 2.17.0
bundled(libjpeg) = 6b
bundled(libpng) = 1.6.47
bundled(zlib) = 1.3.1
java-17 = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
java-17-openjdk = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
java-17-openjdk(aarch-64) = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
jre-17 = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8
jre-17-openjdk = 1:17.0.16.0.8-2.el8