[Fedora-packaging] Conflicts Draft Proposal Round 2
Tom 'spot' Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Jan 16 21:14:48 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:05 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:00, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > No, actually, RHEL doesn't support v3 -> v5 upgrades afaik. At least,
> > RHEL has never previously supported upgrades across more than one major
> > release.
>
> Hrm, I'm getting conflicting information from those over the wall.
>
> However even still, RHEL4 -> RHEL5 is a pretty big jump, that's FC3~ -> FC6 to
> think about. I just think we could widen our horizon a bit on how long to
> keep a (valid) conflict in the spec file.
I don't think it would be a problem if the packager rationalized it
with:
# Needed for RHEL 4 -> RHEL 5 upgrade
~spot
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