RPM question: how to split an existing package in two?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 11:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Per a customer suggestion, I recently separated mysql's client libraries
> out of the base "mysql" RPM into a new "mysql-libs" RPM.  I thought this
> would be a trivial change, but it seems "yum upgrade" fails to cope:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234712
> 
> Would someone slip me a clue on what I did wrong?  I suppose I'm lacking
> some specfile directive, but I dunno what...


so you're preserving the mysql pkg just splitting some items out of it
into mysql-libs?

So there's no need for an obsolete.

In the above bug, as I mentioned in the comment, was the machine where
the problem happened  multilib?

-sv