Provides/Obsoletes question

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:44:55 -0400, seth vidal wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:42 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > I'm trying to rename the libgssapi-0.11-2.fc8 package
> > into libgssglue-0.1-2.fc8 and I'm getting file conflictions
> > on a common config file.
> > 
> > Now reading the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines
> > its seems all I have to do is added a Provides and Obsoletes cause to
> > the new spec file and the file conflictions will be resolved.
> > Unfortunately I must be not understanding something since no matter
> > what I do, I can not get ride of the file confliction.
> > 
> > So I'm hoping a "second pair of eyes" will be able to show
> > what I'm doing wrong.
> > 
> > The old package is libgssapi-0.11-2.fc8
> > The new package is libgssglue-0.1-2.fc8
> > The libgssglue.spec file entry is:
> > 
> > Provides: libgssapi = %{version}-%{release}
> > Obsoletes: libgssapi <= 0.11-2
> > 
> > The error is:
> > # rpm -ihv libgssglue-0.1-2.fc8
> > Preparing...                ########################################### 
> > [100%]
> >          file /etc/gssapi_mech.conf from install of libgssglue-0.1-2.fc8 
> > conflicts with file from package libgssapi-0.11-2.fc8
> > #
> > 
> > Anybody have a clue as to what I'm doing wrong?
> > 
> 
> rpm -ivh doesn't process obsoletes.
> 
> try: rpm -Uvh and see if it works.

Additionally, "<= 0.11-2" is insufficient since 0.11-2.fc8 is
"higher" due to the %dist tag.