On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:13:01PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > What I meant by "political issue" is that the Fedora maintainer is > adamant about this being an ATrpm problem/issue while you would like > it to be solved by having the Fedora maintainer introduce an > Obsoletes line that he refuses.
Well, I answered on the bugzilla you wrote. Yes, some people just need to read ATrpms to feel like it will eat their children. :) > The bottom line is still that as things stand (irrespective of > who-came-first), your sensord package is obsoleting a current Fedora > core package. So even though you may be right in principle, I think it > is a BAD thing for a 3rd party repository to muck up a legitimately > installed package from the current Fedora release. Well, the very same is true for the lm_sensors package itself, even though it is named the same. Your problem is triggered by protectbase that picks one package form here and one form there. "Fixing" that by accomodating the packages for protectbase is the bad workaround. smart and maybe even apt work with such filtering better than yum and the plugins, so the focus should be to fix yum's filtering (if one needs that at all) and make sure the package pools are consistent otherwise. The latter means that if repo A and B ship fooA and fooB which both are equivalent then for compatibily's sake they should add versioned Obsoletes/Provides for the other repo. Bottom line: No matter what technical tools (protectbase etc.) you will apply, if you don't have repoA and repoB talk with each other then you will always get collisions. So I'd rather see us talk than let the problem at the end users' hands. Let's see maybe the maintainer at Fedora just misunderstood the Obsoletes as an aggression towards his fresh packaging while it was there long before he considered adding such functionality to his packaging. I explained this in his bugzilla entry and perhaps he will add those two simple compatibility hooks. > You can imagine many innocent users being tricked up and confused by > this. Actually this only happens with the ones using protectbase and friends ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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