On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:10:10 -0400, James wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:38:48 +0100, Stu wrote: > > > > > I implemented it based on recommendations on the yum wiki that I saw > > > someone else referred to in #fedora-devel : > > > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumPackageUpdates#Packagesplit > > > > Well, that's exactly an example where the two Obsoletes compete with > > eachother. It works only partially. For an ordinary Yum update. > > It fails for a Yum install. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "fail" here. "fail" as in "it doesn't split an installed package into two, but it replaces an installed package with another one". > The above is the only way to > do a "package split" ... No. More correct is the Fedora Packaging Guidelines version, which adds a Requires on the base package to the new [sub-]package. But see below. > which is to say you have: > > 1. pkgA-1 contains two files: /usr/bin/A and /usr/bin/A-blah > > 2. You now want to have pkgA-2 and pkgA-blah-2, which each contain a > single file. > > 3. You want anyone who had pkgA-1 to have both pkgA-2 and pkgA-blah-2 > (because that's what they had before). > > ...if at the end of the "split" you want "yum install pkgA" to install > pkgA-blah (or vice versa), then it's not _just_ a split and you probably > want to use a Requires (as you would if pkgA-2/pkgA-blah-2 were the > first versions). You can do this instead of the obsoletes, but I don't > see the point. If at the end of the split user does "yum install pkgA-blah-2", this erases pkgA-1 ... unless pkgA-blah-2 strictly requires pkgA-2, which is not always desired. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
