Re: Adding Obsoletes to generated -debuginfo packages ?

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On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 11:00:00AM +0000, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:10 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > In libvirt we recently deleted a driver for the legacy Xen toolstack.
> 
> > This was shipped in a libvirt-daemon-driver-xen RPM.
> 
> > I am able to add an "Obsoletes: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen < 4.3.0"
> > line to the libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl RPM, which gives  clean
> > upgrade path for users.
> 
> > If they have the libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-debuginfo RPM installed
> > though that still breaks the upgrade.
> 
> > How can I get the auto-generated libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-debuginfo
> > RPM to have an "Obsoletes: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-debuginfo < 4.3.0"
> > statement ? It seems impossible, meaning users with debuginfo have a
> > broken upgrade path. An unfortunate consequence of switching to seprate
> > -debuginfo per sub-RPM.
> 
> 
> How is this creating upgrade problems? debuginfo packages do not require
> the main packages at all.

I have the debuginfo RPMs installed locally and the upgrade process wants
to install the new debuginfo RPMs to replace them. Whether they have a
dep on the main non-debuginfo packages is tangential to that.

Regards,
Daniel
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