Re: Unversioned and >/=/>= obsoletes

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On 09/02/2016 01:28 PM, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 09/02/2016 06:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I think the issue here is just that the syntax is wrong.
> 
> Instead of what's right now,
> 
> Obsoletes: krb5-server-1.11.3-49.el7.i686
> 
> it should be:
> 
> Obsoletes: krb5-server <= 1.11.3-49.el7.i686
> 
> ... or something along those lines. Right now the problem is that dnf
> considers the whole string "krb5-server-1.11.3-49.el7.i686" to be a
> package name while the package name is really "krb5-server". This makes
> the obsoletes just plain not do anything right now since they don't
> match any package name.
> 

Well, that's not all of it. It is explicitly trying to obsolete the multilib
version of the package as well. I'm not sure this works for that.

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