On 05/24/2012 06:45 AM, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2012 21:33:35 -0400
"Brian J. Murrell"<brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On an EL6 machine, I've built a package "foo-bar" and it's intended to
replace any already installed "bar" package on any machines it's
installed on so I put an:
Obsoletes: bar
in foo-bar.spec and it seems to have been added to the resulting
package:
# rpm -q --obsoletes -p foo-bar-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm
bar
# rpm -ivh foo-bar-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%] 1:foo-bar ###########################################
[100%] # rpm -q bar
bar-1.0-1.el6.noarch
So why didn't the "Obsoletes: bar" remove "bar"?
Cheers,
b.
b/c you did an rpm -ivh not -Uvh.
install doesn't process the obsoletes.
To elaborate a bit: rpm's -i is a special mode for the special purpose
of permitting installation of multiple versions of the same package in
parallel. Typically the only time and place it should be used is the
kernel packages, for all other packages -U should be used whether an
actual update or first-time installation of the package.
- Panu -
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