2010/6/9 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:15:01 +0800, Chen wrote: > >> > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei: >> >> Yes, the obsoletes is necessary, if you don't add it, yum will only >> >> pull in pidgin-evolution. >> > >> > For which operation? Can you elaborate a bit? >> > > >> "yum upgrade" from 2.7.1-1 will only pull in new pidgin-evolution >> subpackage and del old pidgin if you don't add obsoletes. > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=1996754 > > Competing "Obsoletes" once again. The packager is playing with fire. > -- I test yum several days ago, if we split foo package into into foo and bar, we must add obsoletes to both subpackages. When we type "yum upgrade", old foo will be replaced by new foo and bar. Chen Lei -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
