Other possibility is to modify DNF to not touch such packages. Not sure if that would be better. Or is there already some functionality which would exclude the package from dnf transaction, something like:
~~~ # This package won't be installed, but will obsolete other packages Provides: libsolv-self-destruct-pkg() ~~~ we use in fedora-obsolete-packages? Vít Dne 03. 06. 20 v 18:23 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): > Because was bitten by this and there is not clear guideline, I have > tried to draft something here: > > https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/988 > > > Vít > > > Dne 03. 05. 18 v 12:10 Daniel P. Berrangé napsal(a): >> In libvirt we recently deleted a driver for the legacy Xen toolstack. >> >> This was shipped in a libvirt-daemon-driver-xen RPM. >> >> I am able to add an "Obsoletes: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen < 4.3.0" >> line to the libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl RPM, which gives clean >> upgrade path for users. >> >> If they have the libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-debuginfo RPM installed >> though that still breaks the upgrade. >> >> How can I get the auto-generated libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-debuginfo >> RPM to have an "Obsoletes: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-debuginfo < 4.3.0" >> statement ? It seems impossible, meaning users with debuginfo have a >> broken upgrade path. An unfortunate consequence of switching to seprate >> -debuginfo per sub-RPM. >> >> Regards, >> Daniel > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
