Once upon a time Saturday 31 December 2005 1:50 pm, Axel Thimm wrote: > So, is there interest to have ATrpms for FC5 less overlapping with > core packages? > > If so, is there any redhat.com folk that would be willing to add > versioned obsoletes/provides to core specfiles? That's neccessary to > ensure upgradability. I think that the best option would be to write a series of scripts the you can run before upgrade that will remove all of the third party packages and create a script for post install that will reinstall the packages removed. if you are not going to replace core packages anymore then that should work nicely. The recomendation should be the same for an upgrade as those made for ximian packages. The only issues i see with this is 1. you have replaced core packages that break dependancies, in which case a downgrade would be needed. 2. if 3rd party rpms that replace core funcionality are not removed the system upgrade could fail if new core package version-release is less that third party package. All that can be done if bugs filed if packages decide to add obsoletes/provides then thats there choice -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE <dennis AT ausil DOT us> http://www.ausil.us -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
