Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (284 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/17/2011 01:18 PM, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Feb 17 12:09 Vincent Untz wrote (excerpt):
> >   Provides:  pac = %{version}
> >   Obsoletes: pac <= %{version}
>
> This causes a RPMLINT warning that it obsoletes itself
> which may cause whatever failure of package installation tools
> (up to atomic blasts if I imagine correctly what the text
> in those RPMLINT warning tries to tell me ;-)
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
It really happens, you get very loud noises from the installation system.
If the Provides: = %version and Obsoletes: < %version doesn't work
properly especially when you have packman packages to contend with then
Obsoletes: < %{version}.9999 or something similar does the trick.
Dave P
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