Re: iproute package split

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On 04/07/2016 04:07 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 12:55 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
If you have:

(main package)
Obsoletes: %{name} < the-new-version-release

%package tc
Obsoletes: %{name} < the-new-version-release

Both subpackages should get installed on upgrade.

This is a good trick; I've had to use it recently. I went with this
form:

Obsoletes: %{name}%{isa} < the-new-version-release

This seems better, right?

It might seem better but it doesn't work.

Obsoletes are matched on package names only, and %{name}%{isa} in packages is in the package provides so the ends never meet and nothing gets obsoleted.

	- Panu -
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