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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