On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:16:22 -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote: > A few issues I remember caused by unversioned Obsoletes (before they > were banished to Hell) were: > > - Not being able, ever again, to provide the thing being obsoleted. And > believe me, things change ;-) > > - The Obsoletes affects other channels as well, not only the content of > the channel that contains the package that contains the Obsoletes is > affected.\ > If the obsoleted name is needed by something in some other package even > being at a higher version it cannot be installed. > > So for a decade or more (I list track, I am here for almost 2 decades), > the Obsoletes always comes with a '=' or a '<='. RPM itself also blocks a package from being installed, if *any* other installed packages obsoletes that package name. If non-versioned, you're doomed and would need to get rid of the Obsoletes tag first. An overly simplified test-case where the package containing the Obsoletes tag is replaced directly via rpm -Uvh is not sufficient. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
