some package splits
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Jan 29 18:12:01 UTC 2008
Nils Philippsen <nphilipp <at> redhat.com> writes:
> [...]
> Obsoletes: evince < $version
> Conflicts: evince < $version
> [...]
> %package dvi
> Obsoletes: evince < $version
> Conflicts: evince < $version
> [...]
> %package djvu
> Obsoletes: evince < $version
> Conflicts: evince < $version
> [...]
>
> This way, an existing old version of evince will get replaced by the
> triplet evince, evince-dvi and evince-djvu but new installations won't
> be affected --> no need for mentioning in the release ntoes.
This doesn't really work: in practice, depsolvers will just pick an arbitrary
one out of the 3 packages in such a situation, not all 3.
Kevin Kofler
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