---- "Pradeep Kilambi" <pkila...@redhat.com> wrote: > Jan Pazdziora wrote: > >>> Aha, so it is not requires, but rather conflicts with older > versions. > >>> So should be more correct to put inside rhn-client-tools.spec > instead > >>> of: > >>> Requires: yum-rhn-plugin >= 0.5.3-30 > >>> this line: > >>> Conflicts: yum-rhn-plugin < 0.5.3-30 > >>> ??? > >>> > >>> I'm not sure about yum-rhn-plugin.spec since I did not check its > code and dunno if there should be conflict as well or if the code is > really required. > >>> > >>> > >> Its not a conflict. We should force users using latest > yum-rhnplugin to > >> get newer rhn-client-tools and vice-versa. So requires as we have > should > >> do it. > >> > > > > Prad, > > > > if the user does have yum-rhnplugin but not rhn-client-tools, will > > yum-rhnplugin work? If it won't then it's Requires case. If it will > > work without rhn-client-tools or with new rhn-client-tools but not > > with old rhn-client-tools, it's Conflicts. > > > > And vice versa -- for does rhn-client-tools need yum-rhnplugin to > > work? > > > > > > yes, without yum-rhn-plugin, rhn_check(part of rhn-client-tools) will > > not be able to process actions picked up and pass it to yum. Similarly > > without rhn-client-tools, yum-rhn-plugin will not be able to > authenticate to rhn, as rhn-client-tools is what provides the > authentication layer. There are also other cases where, the versioning > > is enforced in the http headers through clientCaps in rhn-client-tools > > to get the access to various capabilities such as arch info from the > supported server. But this arch info can only be processed by the > latest > yum-rhn-plugin which has the arch capability fixes and which depends > on > the new rebased yum in 5.3. And hence a Requires case in my opinion.
Hmm, then yum-rhn-plugin should be required by rhn_check, which is not. It is currently required by rhn-client-tools and rhn-custom-info. It seems to me that rhn-client-tools is only library and should not require anything else (well I speak about yum-rhn-plugin). Other subpackages from rhn-client-tools requires yum-rhn-plugin and it is fine, but I did not reason for the main rhn-client-tools. Mirek _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
