Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:15:55 +0200, Thomas wrote: > Meant to write "PackageKit". And this is surely a PackageKit bug. > > Today this happened again, for the awn-extras-applets package, which > also self-obsoletes: % rpm -q --obsoletes awn-extras-applets > awn-extras-applets-devel < 0.4.0-14.fc13

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-11 Thread Thomas Moschny
2010/6/11 Stu Tomlinson : >> At least it causes package-manager to display an irritating (and >> somehow bogus) warning box that it's going to remove pidgin, and needs >> confirmation for that. > > I'm not sure which "package-manager" this is, but I suggest the fix is > to make "package-manager" no

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-10 Thread Stu Tomlinson
Getting back to the topic of this original email... On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 09:40, Thomas Moschny wrote: > pidgin-2.7.1-2.fc13 obsoletes pidgin <= 2.7.1-1.fc13, is that meaningful? Yes, it's meaningful because it allows updates to pidgin > 2.7.1-1 to pull in the pidgin-evolution package without r

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-10 Thread Brandon Lozza
I think you guys are experiencing the infinite loop bug On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:07:16 +0200, Kevin wrote: > >> > It fails for a Yum install. I warn about such competing Obsoletes, because >> > they strictly require the user to go the "

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:07:16 +0200, Kevin wrote: > > It fails for a Yum install. I warn about such competing Obsoletes, because > > they strictly require the user to go the "yum -y update ; yum install ..." > > route everytime they want to install an additional package. > > Installing stuff on a

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:00:15 -0400, James wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 21:38 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:39:52 -0400, James wrote: > > > And if the user never has pkgA-1 installed, and does "install > > > pkgA-blah" then that's all they'll get. > > > > If you modi

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > It fails for a Yum install. I warn about such competing Obsoletes, because > they strictly require the user to go the "yum -y update ; yum install ..." > route everytime they want to install an additional package. Installing stuff on a non-updated system is playing with f

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread James Antill
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 21:38 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:39:52 -0400, James wrote: > > And if the user never has pkgA-1 installed, and does "install > > pkgA-blah" then that's all they'll get. > > If you modify the scenario, we will talk past eachother. > The scenario i

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:39:52 -0400, James wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 19:23 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:10:10 -0400, James wrote: > > > which is to say you have: > > > > > > 1. pkgA-1 contains two files: /usr/bin/A and /usr/bin/A-blah > > > > > > 2. You now want

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread James Antill
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 19:23 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:10:10 -0400, James wrote: > > which is to say you have: > > > > 1. pkgA-1 contains two files: /usr/bin/A and /usr/bin/A-blah > > > > 2. You now want to have pkgA-2 and pkgA-blah-2, which each contain a > > single

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:10:10 -0400, James wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:38:48 +0100, Stu wrote: > > > > > I implemented it based on recommendations on the yum wiki that I saw > > > someone else referred to in #fedora-devel : > > > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumPackageUpdates#Packagesplit > >

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 12:19 +0200, Michael Schwendt a écrit : > You _cannot_ add _optional_ packages to a user's installation _without_ > proper dependencies somewhere else. Attempts at trying to do that with > Obsoletes are invasive and prone to getting it completely wrong. Fonts SIG side

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread James Antill
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 18:08 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:38:48 +0100, Stu wrote: > > > I implemented it based on recommendations on the yum wiki that I saw > > someone else referred to in #fedora-devel : > > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumPackageUpdates#Packagesplit > >

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Chen Lei
2010/6/10 Michael Schwendt : > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:38:48 +0100, Stu wrote: > >> I implemented it based on recommendations on the yum wiki that I saw >> someone else referred to in #fedora-devel : >> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumPackageUpdates#Packagesplit > > Well, that's exactly an example whe

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:38:48 +0100, Stu wrote: > I implemented it based on recommendations on the yum wiki that I saw > someone else referred to in #fedora-devel : > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumPackageUpdates#Packagesplit Well, that's exactly an example where the two Obsoletes compete with each

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Stu Tomlinson
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:19, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:06:48 +0400, Peter wrote: > >> 2010/6/9 Chen Lei: >> >> > But in this case, the obsoletes seems excessive, since >> > pidgin-evolution already depends on pidgin.  If pidgin-evolution don't >> > depend on pidgin, the obso

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:23:49 +0100, Paul wrote: > The Obsoletes: in pidgin-evo causes pidgin-evo to be pulled in, which is > fine. The package should obsolete pidgin packages prior to the split but > not the ones after the split. Sounds [more] correct. > > * We need to not erase main pidgin (O

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > 2010/6/9 Michael Schwendt : > >> Competing "Obsoletes" once again. The packager is playing with fire. > > Not in this case. It seems to me that this is using something that happens to work for yum (and maybe not for other utilities, different yum versi

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Howarth
On 09/06/10 11:06, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei: > >> But in this case, the obsoletes seems excessive, since >> pidgin-evolution already depends on pidgin. If pidgin-evolution don't >> depend on pidgin, the obsoletes is a must, without it pidgin will be >> replaced by pidgin-evolution

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:06:48 +0400, Peter wrote: > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei: > > > But in this case, the obsoletes seems excessive, since > > pidgin-evolution already depends on pidgin.  If pidgin-evolution don't > > depend on pidgin, the obsoletes is a must, without it pidgin will be > > replaced by pid

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2010/6/9 Michael Schwendt : > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:07:09 +0400, Peter wrote: > >> > Competing "Obsoletes" once again. The packager is playing with fire. >> >> Not in this case. > > Both pidgin-evolution and pidgin obsolete pidgin <= 2.7.1-1.fc13 > Fun for the package resolver. Ah, yes - version s

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2010/6/9 Michael Schwendt : > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:07:09 +0400, Peter wrote: > >> > Competing "Obsoletes" once again. The packager is playing with fire. >> >> Not in this case. > > Both pidgin-evolution and pidgin obsolete pidgin <= 2.7.1-1.fc13 > Fun for the package resolver. Then file a bug aga

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:07:09 +0400, Peter wrote: > > Competing "Obsoletes" once again. The packager is playing with fire. > > Not in this case. Both pidgin-evolution and pidgin obsolete pidgin <= 2.7.1-1.fc13 Fun for the package resolver. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Chen Lei
2010/6/9 Michael Schwendt : > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:15:01 +0800, Chen wrote: > >> > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei: >> >> Yes, the obsoletes is necessary, if you don't add it, yum will only >> >> pull in pidgin-evolution. >> > >> > For which operation? Can you elaborate a bit? >> > > >> "yum upgrade" from 2.7.1

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2010/6/9 Michael Schwendt : > Competing "Obsoletes" once again. The packager is playing with fire. Not in this case. -- With best regards, Peter Lemenkov. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2010/6/9 Chen Lei : > But in this case, the obsoletes seems excessive, since > pidgin-evolution already depends on pidgin.  If pidgin-evolution don't > depend on pidgin, the obsoletes is a must, without it pidgin will be > replaced by pidgin-evolution. If it pidgin-evolution was previously in mai

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:15:01 +0800, Chen wrote: > > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei: > >> Yes, the obsoletes is necessary, if you don't add it, yum will only > >> pull in pidgin-evolution. > > > > For which operation? Can you elaborate a bit? > > > "yum upgrade" from 2.7.1-1 will only pull in new pidgin-evoluti

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Chen Lei
2010/6/9 Thomas Moschny : > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei : >> Yes, the obsoletes is necessary, if you don't add it, yum will only >> pull in pidgin-evolution. > > For which operation? Can you elaborate a bit? > > -- > Thomas Moschny > -- But in this case, the obsoletes seems excessive, since pidgin-evolution

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Chen Lei
2010/6/9 Thomas Moschny : > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei : >> Yes, the obsoletes is necessary, if you don't add it, yum will only >> pull in pidgin-evolution. > > For which operation? Can you elaborate a bit? > > -- > Thomas Moschny > -- "yum upgrade" from 2.7.1-1 will only pull in new pidgin-evolution subp

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Moschny
2010/6/9 Chen Lei : > Yes, the obsoletes is necessary, if you don't add it, yum will only > pull in pidgin-evolution. For which operation? Can you elaborate a bit? -- Thomas Moschny -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Chen Lei
2010/6/9 Thomas Moschny : > Hi, > > pidgin-2.7.1-2.fc13 obsoletes pidgin <= 2.7.1-1.fc13, is that meaningful? > > At least it causes package-manager to display an irritating (and > somehow bogus) warning box that it's going to remove pidgin, and needs > confirmation for that. > > -- > Thomas Moschn

pidgin obsoleting itself

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Moschny
Hi, pidgin-2.7.1-2.fc13 obsoletes pidgin <= 2.7.1-1.fc13, is that meaningful? At least it causes package-manager to display an irritating (and somehow bogus) warning box that it's going to remove pidgin, and needs confirmation for that. -- Thomas Moschny -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedo