Paul Howarth wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: >> Hugo Cisneiros wrote: >>> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:33, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> >>>> Jonathan Underwood wrote: >>>> >>>>> OK - I'd missed that subtelty, sorry. I suppose that's the best (most >>>>> consistent) situation that can be hoped for. >>>> >>>> Or, follow what koffice in Extras did, and use a meta-package named >>>> koffice-suite. A nice advantage of this approach is that since the old >>>> name is no longer being used, we have the opportunity to drop all those >>>> darn Epoch's from kde packaging. >>> >>> >>> And break with upstream package name, package name that the current >>> users are already accustomed, and kdebase and kdelibs should not be >>> sub-packaged, so they will still have these nasty Epochs. I see no >>> advantages here. >> >> Not if you properly Provides/Obsoletes the old name. Obviously, the >> subpackaging idea doesn't extend to *all* kde packages, only for the >> ones for which it makes sense. >> >>> BTW, I had difficulties into installing koffice because of this >>> reason: a simply yum install koffice didn't work. Then I installed one >>> for one until I found out koffice-suite exists (dumb me!) :) >> >> I consider that a bug/shortcoming of yum. koffice-suite properly >> Provides/Obsoletes "koffice", > > Really? It Obsoletes koffice but there's no explicit Provide: > > $ rpm -qp --provides koffice-suite-1.5.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm > koffice-suite = 1.5.1-1.fc5 > # rpm -qp --obsoletes koffice-suite-1.5.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm > koffice <= 4:1.5.1-1.fc5 > koffice-i18n < 4:1.5.1 > > > but 'yum install' doesn't grok "Provides", >> only real pkgs. ): > > So how come things like "yum install libstdc++.so.5" work? OK, maybe not as bad a bug in yum afterall. IMO, koffice-suite should Provides: koffice as well I *do* know that if a real pkg 'foo-1' exists, but a another package 'bar-2' includes Provides: foo = 2 that 'yum install' foo will pull in foo-1. -- Rex -- Rex -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
