Re: Packaging Question

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William Moreno wrote:
> Provides: libnfsidmap-devel%{_isa} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
> 
> Move this line under
> 
> %package -n libnfsidmap-devel
> 
> And you should get a clean update path

As Hedayat Vatankhah pointed out, if the package is called libnfsidmap-
devel, it does not actually need to Provide itself. So the 
Obsoletes/Provides should go away entirely.

Obsoletes/Provides are needed if the BINARY package name changes. E.g., if 
we had:
%package libnfsidmap-devel
(without the -n), generating a nfs-utils-libnfsidmap-devel subpackage, THEN 
it would make sense to Obsolete and Provide libnfsidmap-devel in that 
subpackage (NOT in the main package). But since %package -n is used to 
recreate the same old package name, there is nothing to Obsolete and Provide 
to begin with.

        Kevin Kofler
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