Re: How to obsolete a subpackage?

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Dne 14.9.2016 v 16:32 Florian Weimer napsal(a):
> On 09/14/2016 04:28 PM, David Howells wrote:
>> I need to obsolete one of the arch subpackages in the cross-binutils
>> rpm (and
>> also in the cross-gcc rpm) because binutils no longer supports that arch
>> (sh64).
>>
>> Just marking the appropriate subpackage as obsoleted in the specfile
>> for the
>
> How do you do that?
>
>> cross-binutils-common subpackage causes dnf to complain:
>>
>> warthog>sudo dnf upgrade
>> ./noarch/cross-binutils-common-2.27-1.fc26.noarch.rpm
>> ./x86_64/binutils-*
>> Last metadata expiration check: 0:20:38 ago on Wed Sep 14 15:06:27 2016.
>> Error: package binutils-sh64-linux-gnu-2.26.1-1.fc24.x86_64 requires
>> cross-binutils-common = 2.26.1-1.fc24, but none of the providers can
>> be installed
>> (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting
>> packages)
>>
>> Is this the right way to do things?
>
> I think if you want silent deletion, you'll have to add “Obsoletes:
> binutils-sh64-linux-gnu” to the cross-binutils-common package.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a good idea, though.

This seems to be hot topic recently. I faced the similar issue yesterday
and there is FPC ticket [1] trying to figure out what to do with such
packages.


Vít


[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/645#comment:10
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