On Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 10:20:03 wrote Nathan Cooper:

Greetings,

I have a product that needs to completely replace a previous product. Most of the RPM names are the same - this was essentially a name change on the side of the product. Ideally I would like the users to be able to use OpenSuse's "Patch-CD Update" to perform the migration, as that is what the current user base is used to in the update process.

I added "<obsoletepackage>old-package</obsoletepackage>" to the _product/new-package.product file, which added the following line to my _product:new-product-release/new-product-release.spec "Provides: weakremover(new-product-release)"

However, during a Patch-CD Update, the new product is not selected automatically. Even when I select it manually, the old-product-release package is not removed automatically.

If I use the "Add-On Product" module, the new product pattern IS selected automatically, but the old package is not removed.

Is it possible to provide a direct update path for users when changing the product name? If so, how?

The link below seemed my greatest chance for manual help, but I was not able to get much from it, unfortunately.

http://openbuildservice.org/help/manuals/obs-reference-guide/cha.obs.product...

Again, thank you in advance for your time and consideration, I really appreciate the work that has been done on OBS.

Nathan, it is better to ask the YaST people how to implement that in first place. When they can tell you how to do it, I can tell you how to do via the OBS product definition. And I will add a section to the OBS product chapter then covering this aspect :) sorry adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org