Re: Unversioned and >/=/>= obsoletes

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On 09/02/2016 12:54 PM, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On 09/02/2016 07:14 AM, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
>>>
>>> * Weird obsoletes (broken)
>>> "krb5-server" has "Obsoletes: krb5-server-1.14.3-8.fc26.i686".
>>> Basically it will not obsolete anything because it's threated as
>>> package name (and we definitely don't have such package name).
>>
>> This definitely looks odd... Robbie?
> 
> This is part of something I was requested to add (from the RHEL
> packaging where we have lines like `Obsoletes:
> krb5-server-1.11.3-49.el7.i686`, added by a previous maintainer) wherein
> the 64-bit versions of packages need to obsolete the 32-bit versions
> because we run into problems if both are installed.
> 
> If what's in the spec file is not the correct way to accomplish that,
> what is?  I am unable to find documentation for any of this.
> 

Is that because some machines at one point did have both installed? That's kind
of a mess. I'd recommend taking that discussion to
packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and see what they recommend.

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