KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Tue Jun 20 21:48:34 UTC 2006


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:29:37 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:

> 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.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/190116




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