Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (116 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Packagers,

I was asked to clarify if/when "Conflicts: otherproviders(...)"
has to be used. The answer is that it should not be used at all
anymore. Upstream rpm allows self-conflicts since the year 2011
(commit b9f5062c227f4a8feff83c0ee1cde2929da7cd3e), it is included
in SLES-12 (rpm-4.11.2) but not SLES-11 (rpm-4.4.2.3).

So if you're not targeting SLES-11 it's safe to use a real
self-conflict instead of that ugly otherproviders() workaround.
The advantage is that rpm will also understand it and not just
zypper/libzypp.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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