Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (17 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:10:23PM +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Michal Svec <msvec@xxxxxxx> [Feb 14. 2008 16:04]:
> > I see, but that still makes a difference, rpm allows you to install both 
> > at the same time while zypper does not.
>
> IIRC, thats a known deficiency.
>
> zypper with the libredcarpet solver behaves similar to the 'original'
> rpm command. The rpm package shipped with openSUSE is modified.
>
> The change concerns 'virtual' obsoletes. Our rpm command only matches
> 'obsoletes' to package _names_. Zypp does a generic capability match
> which triggers also for package _provides_.
>
> But please ask Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxxxxx> for the glory
> details ;-)

Depends on the rpm version. rpm3 did not look at provides,
unmodified rpm4 looked at provides. We patched that feature *out*
in some of our releases.

Currently, rpm4 *upstream* (maintained by Panu) does no longer
look at the provides, while rpm5 upstream does.

Confused enough?

Cheers,
  Michael.

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