[Fedora-packaging] Conflicts Draft Proposal

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Dec 5 17:40:59 UTC 2006


> $ rpm -q --conflicts initscripts
> mkinitrd < 4.0
> kernel < 2.6.12
> ypbind < 1.6-12
> psacct < 6.3.2-12
> kbd < 1.06-19
> lokkit < 0.50-14
> dhclient < 3.0.3-7
> tcsh < 6.13-5
> xorg-x11  
> glib2 < 2.11.1-2
> 
> Some of these can be flipped to requires (kernel, for example, glib2). However,
> making initscripts *require* things like ypbind, psacct, dhclient would be
> wrong.

And in those cases, you should use Conflicts, you just need to provide
rationalization to the appropriate Fedora Committee and have a comment:

e.g.

# When ypbind is older than 1.6-12, the initscripts explode horribly.
# ypbind is not required for initscripts to function.
Conflicts: ypbind < 1.6-12

~spot




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