On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 04:15:19AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Imagine there are two projects: foo and foo+. foo+ is a fork, a > different flavor of foo, but both offer the same functionality and are > compatible for other apps that sit on top of foo(+). > > Now both projects want to be included in fedora. First of all, both > packages need a Conflicts: foo conflicts foo+ and foo+ conflicts foo. > > Ok so far, but foo+ also needs a "Provides: foo", and I wonder if is > Provides: foo > Conflicts: foo > really is a good idea. And can/should we use versioned Provides: here? Unless I am wrong, yum (rpm) won't care about versioned Provides:, and replace foo+ with foo (I had such issues with libnet10/libnet). > As foo+ is usually slightly ahead of foo, I'm afraid that yum would > replace foo with foo+. > > Ideas, Comments? Maybe use the alternatives system instead of a conflict? And a virtual provides (maybe versionned) for the foo capability? -- Pat -- 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
