[Fedora-packaging] Using self-Obsoletes instead of Epoch bumps?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 20:38 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 13:27 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 19:06 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > Has anyone ever experimented with or considered using self-Obsoletes as
> > > an alternative to Epoch bumps using plain rpm CLI and various
> > > depsolvers?
> > > 
> > > Assuming there's a finite and known set of "supported" packages, listing
> > > all of them as an explicit, exact (note: always "=")
> > > 
> > >     Obsoletes: %{name} = $v-$r
> >
> > well to make it catch older ones you'd need <= $v-$r
> > 
> > and at that point wouldn't the package be obsoleting itself b/c of the
> > version confusion?
> 
> Yes.  But as I said above, always "=".  Not "<=" or anything else.
> 

then you'll only catch that specific version - I can see that becoming
sticky once you have to limp them along for multiple releases.

-sv