Re: package-split doesn't seem to be working

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On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 17:42 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I'm trying to do what I think is documented here:
> 
> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumPackageUpdates#Packagesplit
> 
> where i currently have a package called foo-1.2.3 and I want to
> replace
> that with foo-1.3 and bar-1.0.0 splitting the files from foo-1.2.3
> into
> the new foo and bar packages.
> 
> I have both foo-1.3 and bar-1.0.0 packages doing an "Obsoletes: foo <
> 1.3" but I'm still getting complaints about files from bar-1.0.0
> conflicting with files that exist from the currently installed foo-
> 1.2.3:
> 
> file /usr/lib/foobar from install of bar-1.0.0.el7.x86_64 conflicts
> with file from package foo-1.2.3.el7.centos.x86_64
> 
> Additionally, just in case it's relevant, foo-1.3 "Requires: bar-
> 1.0.0".

Is this possibly because when trying to upgrade foo-1.2.3 to foo-1.3
it's requiring the new bar-1.0.0 package, which is technically an
"install" (and being treated as an install, rather than an upgrade) so
it (the new bar-1.0.0 package) is not allowed to replace any existing
files?

Cheers,
b.

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