Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (45 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:41:52AM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> What Thorsten is trying to say is, that this complicates updating from 
> older than the last box/product, to a point where the package maintainer 
> probably will make an error that breaks such updating.  Suppose there's a 
> package oldpac with these versions:
>
> oS 10.1 : oldpac 1.1
> oS 10.2 : oldpac 1.3
> oS 10.3 : oldpac 1.4
> SLE10   : oldpac 1.2
>
> Now, what version should be provided in newpac (going into oS 11.0)?  With 
> the current suggestion it would be:
>
> Provides: oldpac = 1.4
>
> That package will also go into SLE11.  But updating from SLE10 to SLE11 
> would require a Provides: oldpac = 1.2 (as that was the version in SLE10).  

Why do you think so? If there was no rename, we have the same scenario:

oS 10.1 : pac 1.1
oS 10.2 : pac 1.3
oS 10.3 : pac 1.4
SLE10   : pac 1.2

pac 1.x will automatically get "Provides: pac = 1.x" by rpmbuild, and
nobody is complaining about that.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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