On 1/4/11 10:20 AM, "Luis Araujo" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 01/04/2011 01:42 PM, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> On 1/4/2011 9:21 AM, Michael Leibowitz wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:50 -0800, Ryan Ware wrote:
>>>>> Unfortunately, it looks like Nokia has decided to rename the Aegis
>>>>> packages to MSSF.  :-(  The first I heard of it was the
>>>>> repositories in Gitorious being renamed.  Is the procedure here
>>>>> that I create a bug stating that the package names are incorrect
>>>>> and that I go through, create new packages with the new names, fix
>>>>> the yaml and spec files and submit to testing or is there something
>>>>> else that we do for renaming
>>> a project?
>>>> Please use obsoletes in the spec/yaml to make update work correctly.
>>>> This is what it is for.
>>> yup
>>>
>>> one minute thing; if you use obsoletes, please use a versioned
>>> obsoletes, like
>>>
>>> Obsoletes: foo<= 4.23-2
>>>
>>> the reason for this is that if you do a "naked" obsoletes like
>>>
>>> Obsoletes: foo
>>>
>>> you can never ever go back or use another package with that name,
>>> while if it's versioned then the obsoletes is bounded...
>>
>> is it still the case that it's necessary to use a Conflicts
>> /and/ a Provides line (providing the old package name) to
>> really get the replacement right?
>I think only a Provides should make it:
>
>Provides: foo > 4.23-2

Thanks folks.  Wanted to make sure I do this right.

Ryan


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