procedure for renaming a package

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Sun Oct 5 06:09:14 UTC 2008


On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to rename tetex-tex4ht to tex-tex4ht together with
> texlivisation. However I cannot find in the wiki the procedure that can
> be used to rename a package without changing anything else. There are a
> lot of information somehow related but nothing really appropriate -- or
> I didn't found it.
>
> More precisely, it doesn't seems to be on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure
> There are elements on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife
> but it isn't really appropriate (in my opinion appropriate informations
> should go here).
> I found nothing relevant in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UsingPackagedb
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UsingCvsFaq
>
> Did I missed something? If not, what is the procedure?
>  <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list>


Renaming a package is just bringing in the new package, getting it reviewed,
particularly for correct Provides/Obsoletes, and then requesting that the
old named package be removed.

--
Jes
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