On 2016-11-18 01:03 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
Fedora N has: xorg-drivers-7.5 which requires xorg-drivers-foo, xorg-drivers-bar xorg-drivers-foo requires xorg-drivers = 7.5 xorg-drivers-bar requires xorg-drivers = 7.5 Fedora N+1 has: xorg-drivers-7.7 which requires xorg-drivers-foo xorg-drivers-foo requires xorg-drivers = 7.7 xorg-drivers-bar is not present as it was retired, no package provides it Before upgrade you must manually remove xorg-drivers-bar otherwise you will get broken dependencies. (Sorry for taking xorg as example, this happened in past not just with xorg but with many other packages too). My recommendation - first solve this and only then think about N+2 upgrades.
This is entirely orthogonal, really. We already have a perfectly good solution for the above case: xorg-drivers-7.7 should Obsoletes: xorg-drivers-bar . Unfortunately, not all maintainers do this when retiring packages, and we don't enforce that they should hard enough. But *all* retired packages should be obsoleted by some other package which we can expect to be installed on the system.
(Interestingly, there is actually a way to solve this *retroactively*: the other week I was kicking around the idea of setting up a third-party repo containing a single package named fedora-obsoletes which just contains a bunch of obsoletes for known-retired-but-not-obsoleted packages. It'd make upgrading EOL systems rather easier. I didn't have time to do it, but if anyone else wants to take the idea and run with it...)
I think I've proposed at least once that we make Obsoletes: for retired packages mandatory. My last proposal currently seems to be assigned to tibbs.
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