Le dimanche 18 septembre 2011, à 20:07 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
Hi,
in discussions etc. people say one should use < in the obsoletes/provides relation: Obsoletes: foo < %version Provides: foo = %version
However this does not reliably "work" when %version did not change across the change (e.g. changing EV from foo-1.0 towards libfoo-1.0), the old foo-1.0 will stick around because it is not obsoleted by libfoo-1.0. So "foo < %version" is actually bogus and should be either <=, or actually foo < %version-%release. <= makes technology unhappy ("package obsoletes itself"), so that leaves us with the %version-%release approach. Does baselibs.conf support obsoletes "foo < <version>-<release>" actually?
Sascha mentioned this case in his talk about packaging best practices. The recommendation is the following: - if there's a version update at the same time, use < - if there's no version update, use <=, and add a comment specifying for which version this was done, so people know when it's safe to go to <. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org