On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 09:12 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 07:23:22PM -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> > When the -symlinks package was removed and an RPROVIDES was added, nothing
> > was put in to cause the removal of the older package in an upgrade.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com>
> > ---
> > meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> > b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> > index 17c66bc..ea2383e 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ FILES_${PN} = " \
> > ${prefix}/${TARGET_SYS}/bin/*"
> >
> > RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-symlinks"
> > +RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-symlinks"
>
> IIRC for opkg backend you need also RCONFLICTS for opkg to really remove
> old ${PN}-symlinks.
Also for dpkg. If you have Replaces: without Conflicts: then this just
means that the replacing package is allowed to overwrite files in the
replaced one, not that the replaced one will actually be uninstalled.
p.
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