On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Kevin Fenzi (kevin@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > > create a 'fedora-orphans' package. When things are orphaned, that > > package gets added to it: > > Provides: oldpackagename = $provEVR > > Obsoletes: oldpackagename < $obsEVR > > > > If the package is unorphaned, just bump release and it's back in > > business. I do suspect this will make some mad users if they use other > > repos or locally built packages however. > > Hm. I think the effect on locally-built packages is too much for this. Agreed, as already said in a previous post. Just a note, if someone is still interested in pursuing this, at least the Provides needs to be dropped from the above - it's just wrong. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
