[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 327 Avoid uninstalling dependencies during package lifetime

[Rob Crittenden]

Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 08:25 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Martin Kosek wrote:
>>> Requires(pre) only guarantees that package will be present before
>>> package scriptlets are run. However, the package can be removed
>>> after installation is finished without removing also IPA. Add
>>> standard Requires for these dependencies.
>>>
>>> Remove PRE version number from VERSION. This update and following
>>> is done on a top of IPA 3.0.0 GA.
>>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3189
>>
>> IIRC we used pre because older versions of 389-ds-base (RHEL-5 and older
>> Fedora) provided its own SELinux policy and we needed this to be available
>> before our own policy was installed.
>>
>> I have hte feeling that pre can be removed altogether.
>
> Good to know - I removed the pre Requires for 389-ds-base.
>
>>
>> While you're updating the VERSION you may as well change the whole value to
>> 3.0.99 or something unique.
>>
>> rob
>>
>
> Ok. Since master branch will be IPA 3.1 in future, and ipa-3-0 branch will be
> IPA 3.0.1 I created a patch for each branch separately to update the VERSION
> respectively (I chose IPA 3.0.1-pre1 for 3.0.1).
>
> Martin
>

ACK, pushed both.

rob