Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 28 Jan 2002 17:22:24 +0100 > Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Claudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Any hope to have automake 1.5 into incoming Linux Mandrake 8.2? > > > > The best I can do is a automake1.5-1.5 in contrib which conflicts > > with main automake. Would it be good? > > Thank you. > > Installing it with urpmi it ends up to be an install with --nodeps and > --force, while after installing automake-1.4 is still installed. > Maybe it should have a tag Obsoletes: automake?
No, it's meant to conflict as for now, not to obsoletes, because most apps don't work well with. So people need to manually remove "automake" and install "automake1.5", knowing what they're doing... > And it only seems to provide automake1.5. > An extra tag for Provides: automake might be good. > For example a package that has a BuildRequires for it gives an error: > automake >= 1.5 is needed by mjpegtools-1.6.0-beta1 -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
