On 30 June 2014 15:52, Ales Kozumplik <akozu...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hello people, > > this is about [1], i.e. the fact that DNF currently doesn't support an > upgrade path where a package is split into several new packages. It would be > better suited for yum-devel but I'm posting it here since Michael doesn't > read yum-devel. > > There are two approaches to this out there that I know of: the Fedora way > where N new packages obsolete the old package [2] [3]. When Yum sees this > during 'yum upgrade' it installs all the N new pacakges and removes the old > one. Note that the Fedora guidelines and even the Yum manual page are quite > vague on the exact semantics of how splitting and renaming works. I'd be > interested to find a better description somewhere. > > There is a different convention used in SUSE [4] that employs a special > 'split-alias' provide. Michael said in the bugzilla this is not a desirable > approach. > > Before I try to come up with a proposal on fixing this, does somebody have a > proposal at hand? Could supplements: or similar help? Are there reasons to > move away from what Yum does (besides that using 'obsoletes:' is a bit > random thing for it, i.e. I imagine it was more picked because it didn't > break anything else in the RPM world than picked as a design decision)?
I think the appropriate ml would be DNF one, not this one... _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
