On Friday, 02 September 2016 at 18:57, 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. Why were there both versions of the krb5-server package in the repos in the first place? What problems occured? > > 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. I'd add something like this: %ifarch x86_64 Obsoletes: krb5-server <= last version that caused issues %endif so that this doesn't end up in all arches. If I understand correctly, this affects only x86_64 due to it being multilib. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
