On 06/03/07, Robin Norwood <rnorwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IMO, perl-devel >= *-14 therefore should > Obsoletes: perl < 4:5.8.8-14 > to guarantee an update/upgrade without functional regressions. > > Unfortunately: Such a change has dramatic effects on yum: It causes yum > to iterate through all perl(...) deps. This doesn't seem right to me anyway. perl-devel doesn't obsolete older versions of perl since it doesn't replace their functionality. perl+perl-devel does 'obsolete' older versions of perl, but rpm can't really express that.
Say that the new perl-devel Conflicts with perl < 4:5.8.8-14 ?
