> How exactly to use the tag "Obsoletes:" in a spec file ?
>
> I need to offer texlive to users on Centos-5.6, so I packaged it (based
> on a Mandriva src.rpm), and that works.
>
> But I want rpm to *replace* tetex by texlive, instead of just adding
> texlive, when users do a :
> $ yum install texlive
> (we have a local repo here).
>
> So I added this line in texlive.spec :
> Obsoletes: tetex
Does your package provide tetex? If not, use
Provides: tetex
And note, there is also Conflicts: but you don't need it I think.
Simon
> and of course I rebuilt the package, and (of course) that just don't
> work, despite tetex is listed among the Obsoleted packages :
> $ rpm -qp --obsoletes texlive-20110312-0phn.x86_64.rpm
> dvi2tty <= 5.3.1
> jadetex
> kpathsea <= 20100722
> kpathsea-devel <= 20100722
> kpathsea-static-devel <= 20100722
> pdfjam <= 1.21
> ps2eps <= 1.64
> tetex
> tetex-context
> tetex-devel
> tetex-dvipdfm
> tetex-dvips
> tetex-dvilj
> tetex-latex
> tetex-mfwin
> tetex-texi2html
> tetex-usrlocal
> tetex-xdvi
> etc...
> (tetex is the CentOS one : tetex-3.0-33.8.el5_5.6)
>
> Can someone explain me why this fails, and eventually an other way to
> solve this problem ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Philippe
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