Le Mardi 22 Juillet 2003 06:27, Andi Payn a �crit :
> On Monday 21 July 2003 19:43, you wrote:
> > Le Lundi 21 Juillet 2003 17:44, Andi Payn a �crit :
> > > Under rpm 4.0, installing or upgrading a package only checked its
> > > obsoletes against the main package name. Now, 4.2 also checks against
> > > any virtual names provided by the package. So, with 4.0, two packages
> > > that provided and obsoleted the same virtual name wouldn't interfere;
> > > now they do.
> >
> > After checking, I am not sure:
>
> I've attached the simplest possible packages to demonstrate the problem.
>
> 1. rpmbuild -ba dummy1, dummy2-1mdk, and dummy2-2mdk.
> 2. rpm -Uvh dummy1-1.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm
>       now dummy1 is installed
> 3. rpm -Uvh dummy2-1.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm
>       now dummy1 and dummy2 are both installed
> 4. rpm -Uvh dummy2-1.0-2mdk.noarch.rpm
>       now dummy1 is gone; onldummy2 is installed
>
> Apparently this is only triggered when upgrading an existing package to a
> later version (step 4). That's what your test was missing.
>
> The obsoletes tag in dummy1 and the provides in dummy2 are unnecessary to
> trigger the problem, but I put them in to better simulate the situation
> that seems to turn up in real packages.
>
> If you remove the "Provides" tag from dummy1, the problem goes away. If you
> remove the "Obsoletes" tag from dummy2, the problem goes away. If you
> version the "Obsoletes" tag so it doesn't match dummy1, the problem goes
> away.

Can I have rpm -q rpm from your system ?

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