On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:33:10AM -0000, Artur Frenszek-Iwicki wrote: > Haven't planned on this originally, but it seems like a good idea. > > Never really used Obsoletes before, so I have to ask: > what's the dnf behaviour when a package is obsoleted by multiple packages? > If it tries to install all of them, then that'd be okay. I'd like to > avoid a situation where dnf decides that it prefers to upgrade by > removing the "old" fpc package and installing only fpc-ide.
You need to add 'Obsoletes: $original_package_name < $some_version_after_split' to both the $original_package_name subpackage and to the new split-out subpackage. With that, dnf will install both on upgrade of $original_package_name. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
