yum, and 2 packages that provide the same thing

Thomas Moschny thomas.moschny at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 16:46:45 UTC 2008


2008/4/18, Stephen Warren <s-t-rhbugzilla at wwwdotorg.org>:
> Well, the obsoletes tag is required so that unison213 and unison227
>  obsolete the old unison package, and hence replace it on yum update.

Wouldn't it be *much* easier to simply put both binaries into a single package?

Because now, both packages only contain the respective binary and
almost identical doc files anyway? (ok, NEWS differs, obviously)

- Thomas




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