On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:28:09PM -0600, Lamont Peterson wrote: > [snip] > > Well, discussions about renaming all tools and packages to spacewalk- > > <something> pop up from time to time for many years ;). > > Althought we mostly agree with renaming comandline tools (assuming that > > old names will remain at least as symlinks for compatibility reasons) > > we've decided not to rename rpm packages because it will make upgrades > > much complicated. > > How so? You simply "Obsoletes:" the old package name with the new one. You > can even drop the "Obsoletes:" from the SPEC file after a time. >
Except you won't see that package as a suggested errata in RHN or Spacewalk because, well, it's a different package. So it will work by replacing the original package correctly but you will have harder time making the new package be included in the transaction. -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Identity Management Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
