I had a bug reported that F32 -> F33 upgrades don't work if you have
nbdkit-tar-plugin installed. This is expected because that plugin was
removed.
It's is (sort of) replaced by nbdkit-tar-filter. However it's not a
completely straightforward replacement since you have to change the
command line you are using. The functionality is equivalent, but you
have to consume it in quite a different way.
So on IRC we discussed a few different options:
(1) Adding:
%package tar-filter
Obsoletes: %{name}-tar-plugin <= %{version}-%{release}
Provides: %{name}-tar-plugin = %{version}-%{release}
that will transparently replace nbdkit-tar-plugin => nbdkit-tar-filter
on upgrade. Maybe that's fine, people will need to read the release
notes however.
(2) Or adding:
%package tar-filter
Obsoletes: %{name}-tar-plugin <= %{version}-%{release}
which says that it obsoletes but doesn't provide a replacement. Note
however I'm not sure if this will work, because they won't have
nbdkit-tar-filter installed before the upgrade (it never existed in
F32), so will the Obsoletes ever be "seen" by dnf?
(3) Or adding:
%package server
Obsoletes: %{name}-tar-plugin <= %{version}-%{release}
Since nbdkit-server is the "base package" that everyone doing this
upgrade has installed, it seems like the Obsoletes will be "seen" by
everyone, causing removal of nbdkit-tar-plugin, but not replacement.
I'm not sure which of these is correct.
Rich.
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