On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:22:36 -0500, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Christoph Wickert > <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't think so, I was rather thinking of the packaging site. We need >> to have proper Provides/Obsoletes in place for a clean upgrade. > > The issue here is that if you had one of these installed, > preupgrade/yum will prefer preserving the applet package over > upgrading the OS core? And that we work around that by adding some > Obsoletes to some random package in the core OS to trick it? Okay, I > guess, though it feels weird. These things are very similar to > Firefox extensions, and they have an explicit UI which says "The > following addons are no longer compatible...". > The difference being Firefox extensions do not have RPM packaging dependencies on a program that is being overhauled as much as GNOME is. Most GNOME applets require one or the other .so version provided by a gnome-* package, right? This would pin down the original gnome-* package which is supposed to be upgraded. Similar, yes, but very much so not the same thing. -- Jeroen -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
