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Re: [opensuse-packaging] obsoletes / provides question
  • From: Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:07:28 +0200
  • Message-id: <20070828140728.GA9304@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Stefan Schubert <schubi@xxxxxxx> [Aug 28. 2007 15:55]:
> Marcus Meissner schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I came across opensuse-updater-kde which has following set
> > of Provides / Obsoletes:
> >
> > Name: opensuse-updater-kde
> > Provides: opensuse-updater = 0.5
> > Obsoletes: opensuse-updater <= 0.5
> >
> > Does this work? Won't it obsolete/deinstall itself?
> >   
> No, thats the way how you define a rename:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Dependencies#Renaming_a_package

Which is kind of confusing.

"Provides: opensuse-updater = 0.5
 Obsoletes: opensuse-updater < 0.5"
would be more logical.


Klaus
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