New Package: fish
Oliver Falk
oliver at linux-kernel.at
Mon Jun 20 16:44:36 UTC 2005
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 16:58 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>
> > The idea is to add a symlink /usr/local/bin/fish -> /usr/bin/fish
> > after an RPM package for fish with version < 1.6 gets
> > uninstalled, but
> > only if the string /usr/local/bin/fish is found in /etc/passwd.
>
> But nothing would remove the /usr/local/bin/fish symlink when
> the new fish package gets erased. You'd need to %ghost it in
> the specfile.
>
> Or you could try if "Conflicts: fish < 1.6" would result in
> the need of manually erasing the earlier fish package before
> installing the new one (untested, and probably not).
>
> Anyway, I don't see a clean solution to this, and I'd
> personally just declare upgrading from the earlier version as
> unsupported.
Copy that. Also because I'm not a great friend of rpm triggers!
Best,
Oliver
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