On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:21 +0530, Sphurti A Phopale wrote: > Hello > > Is it possible to build 2 rpm packages with different major versions, > different install locations but with same package name. The requirement is > when the user installs these packages, he should be able to install both > independently. > > For e.g. > Currently, we have package > A) ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-6.0-9.0.i386.rpm ( name : ibm-xxx-i386-xxx version:6.0 > release:9.0) > > We are now moving to newer release > > B) ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-7.0-0.0.i386.rpm (name:ibm-xxx-i386-xxx version:7.0 > release:0.0) > > Currently, on installing the package B first and then package A we get > following error > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > package ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-7.0-0.0 (which is newer than > ibm-xxx-i386-xxx-6.0-9.0) is already installed > > Is it possible to make B package an independent package and make it > co-exist with packageA See: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/MultipleVersions ...you may also find this helpful: http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7660.html _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
