KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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. 

Here is the scoop.

you have 'foo-0:2.4.6-1' as a package.  You then create 'foobar-0:1.2-3'
which has Obsoletes: foo; Provides: foo.  'foo' is left in the
repository.

'yum install foo'  will find the package 'foo' and install that instead
of 'foobar'.  This is by design according to Seth when I last talked to
him about it.  Because you are asking for the package name not a
provides.  The package itself would have to be removed from the
repository.

Seth, is this still true?  I don't want to speak for you.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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