On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 20:38 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bill Nottingham <notting <at> redhat.com> writes: > > Just to note, if you fix multiarch conflicts by moving libraries to > > a -libs package, your new -libs package should obsolete the older > > versions of the package where the libraries came from. This is so > > that yum upgrades work properly. > > This hack is a bad idea, it breaks APT-RPM! (Even for non-multilib systems!) > > I just tested this hack with a dummy package: I have installed a package called > multilib-obsoletes-test Version: 1, Release: 1, then put 1-2 into a test repo > (created just for this purpose), with a -libs subpackage which obsoletes > multilib-obsoletes-test < 1-2. This confuses apt-get dist-upgrade, which reacts > the following way: > The following packages have been kept back > multilib-obsoletes-test (1-1 => 1-2) > In other words, it gets confused by the hack, and it won't update the package > at all! > it sounds like apt is doing updates then obsoletes in its processing? Have you reported this as a bug, yet? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
