On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, ext John Summerfield wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, ext Tim Waugh wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:39:16PM +0200, Matilainen Panu
> (NBI/Helsinki) wr
> > ote:
> > >
> > > > Namely:
> > > > - sane-backends / frontends split has problems (files conflict)
> > >
> > > No, seems to be an apt bug.
> > >
> > > $ rpm -ql sane-backends sane-frontends | sort | uniq -d
> > > $ rpm -q --obsoletes sane-frontends
> > > sane
> >
> > Yes, I know. But then it also does "Provides: sane" ... well, this I
> guess
> > can be thought of as a bug in apt - I got over this by adding
> > "Provides: sane = %{version}" to sane-frontends and a "Conflicts <=
> > rhl-7.1-version" to sane-backends which doesn't sound completely
> > irrational to me.
>
> saying it conflicts with redhat-release-7.1-1 doesn't sound very sane
> to me. RHL 7.2 packages should fit right into RHL 7.1 with minimal
> difficulty. At some point RH will (judging from past practice) expect
> users to use RHL 7.2 errata on earlier RHL 7.x releases.
The "rhl-7.1-version" above means "the version of sane in rhl 7.1" ..
wasn't perhaps very clearly expressed.
>
> I'm sure I am not the only person to take RHL y.2 packages and install
> them on 7.1 or y.0 releases, and people building packages don't want to
> build for all the minor releases.
Certainly not - me too does it all the time, both ways.
- Panu -
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