On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:44:23 -0700 Andi Payn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 4. Come up with a new policy for provides/obsoletes when replacing old
> packages. Just versioning the obsoletes will solve 95% of the
> problems. (If gimp-1.2 and gimp1_3-1.3 both said "Obsoletes: hackgimp
> < 1.2" instead of "Obsoletes: hackgimp" everything would work fine.)
> To solve the other 5%, don't ever copy over obsoletes tags from the
> previous major version (except where it makes sense, of course).
I am wondering if this same is also occurring with Conflicts/Provides.
When I uploaded gettext_0.12-0.12.1 each sub pkg carried the tag
Conflicts: [foo] < %version
Provides: [foo] = %version
If urpmi/rpmdrake is used to install gettext_0.12 it naturally wants to
remove the currently installed gettext-0.11.5, But it also wants to
Remove All pkg and children which have a Require for gettext.
It is disregarding the Provides for the gettext_0.12 pkgs.
If the 0.12 rpms are manually installed the Provides are accepted since
--auto-select does not want to remove anything due to failed Depends.
Charles
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