KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Jun 20 14:35:20 UTC 2006
Hugo Cisneiros wrote:
>> I consider that a bug/shortcoming of yum. koffice-suite properly
>> Provides/Obsoletes "koffice", but 'yum install' doesn't grok "Provides",
>> only real pkgs. ):
>
> Hummm, this is really annoying... If this is really a yum bug, we would
> get a lot of trouble. I asked Seth's adivce on IRC somedays ago and he
> said that yum recognizes Provides well. Is this fixed in current
> development yum versions? (aka 2.9.0)
>
> Anyway, I have a rawhide test system here, I'll test this and inform the
> list. later.
Thanks. I'm pretty sure the "bug" isn't as bad as I originally described.
Last I knew, however, was that yum did prefer an older "real" pkg over a
newer "Provides:" one.
-- Rex
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