On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:12 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> William Moreno wrote:
> > Provides: libnfsidmap-devel%{_isa} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
> >
> > Move this line under
> >
> > %package -n libnfsidmap-devel
> >
> > And you should get a clean update path
>
> As Hedayat Vatankhah pointed out, if the package is called libnfsidmap-
> devel, it does not actually need to Provide itself. So the
> Obsoletes/Provides should go away entirely.
>
> Obsoletes/Provides are needed if the BINARY package name changes. E.g., if
> we had:
> %package libnfsidmap-devel
> (without the -n), generating a nfs-utils-libnfsidmap-devel subpackage, THEN
> it would make sense to Obsolete and Provide libnfsidmap-devel in that
> subpackage (NOT in the main package). But since %package -n is used to
> recreate the same old package name, there is nothing to Obsolete and
> Provide
> to begin with.
>
>
One more caveat: make sure that the ENVR (epoch, name, version and release)
of the new libnfsidmap package sorts higher than that of the former
standalone package, or else it won't act as a replacement.
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