On 12/03/2010 05:20 PM, James Antill wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:24 +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am seeking some help here to solve a possible $subject. I have been >> trying to find a simple alternate solution, but I just canÂt see it or >> itÂs not obvious to me. >> >> This is the situation: >> >> srpm foo 1.0 ships 2 rpmÂs bar and baz. bar has a daemon inside. >> >> due to upstream split: >> >> srpm foo 1.1 now ships only bar rpm without the daemon. >> >> srpm baz 1.1 now ships 2 rpmÂs, baz (exactly as in version 1.0) and >> baz-something that contains the barÂs daemon from 1.0. >> >> In order to avoid upgrade issues, we need to make sure that bar 1.1 will >> pull in baz-something 1.1 (to retain functionality), at the same time >> baz-something requires bar 1.1 to operate at all. >> >> There is no requirement for a strictly versioned Requires: on both >> sides. baz-something Requires: bar >= 1.1, and bar Requires: >> baz-something (no version need since itÂs a new rpm). > > The above reads more complicated than I think it is. I assume you have > two problems: > > 1. When moving from foo-1.0 => foo-1.1 and baz-1.1, you have a package > split ... this implies using versioned Obsoletes (<= 1.0) on bar from > baz-something. > > 2. In baz-something-1.1 you have a normal requires on bar-1.1 ... so > just add a versioned (>= 1.1) require. > Hey guys, thanks for the hint in the right direction! Fabio -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
