Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (227 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:20:43AM +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 15 April 2008 schrieb Klaus Kaempf:
> > > (from libredcarpet:rc-queue-item.c)
> > >         /* Check to see if we conflict with ourself and don't create
> > >   * an uninstall item for it if we do.  This is Debian's way of
> > >   * saying that one and only one package with this provide may
> > >   * exist on the system at a time.
> > >   */
> > >
> > > Does sat-solver get this right ?
> > Does it matter to rpm only solutions?
>
> I can imagine any ugly way to hide self conflict to rpm:
>
> Conflicts: packagefirst(name_of_the_package:string_used_as_a_hash)
>
> For example:
> Conflicts: packagefirst(gimp-branding:branding-openSUSE)

What is "packagefirst"? How about:

    Provides: bootsplash-branding
    Conflicts: otherproviders(bootsplash-branding)

Or something like that.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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