Re: yum reinstall using non-identical packages with same EVR

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:02:11 + (UTC), Andre wrote: > > The dist tag is part of the R in EVR, however, so whenever you rpmbuild > > something in order to _rebuild_ it, you need to bump the R to turn the build > > into a valid update. For dist-specific rebuilds, you would append your own > > lea

yum reinstall using non-identical packages with same EVR

2011-02-27 Thread Andre Robatino
Michael Schwendt gmail.com> writes: > The dist tag is part of the R in EVR, however, so whenever you rpmbuild > something in order to _rebuild_ it, you need to bump the R to turn the build > into a valid update. For dist-specific rebuilds, you would append your own > least-significant release val

Re: yum reinstall using non-identical packages with same EVR

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:50:09 + (UTC), Andre wrote: > Andre Robatino fedoraproject.org> writes: > > > Well, I know it looks odd, but I'm not trying to be perverse, on the > > contrary. I needed to generate F14 deltarpm binary rpms that use the new > > compression, but wanted to use no more th

yum reinstall using non-identical packages with same EVR

2011-02-27 Thread Andre Robatino
Andre Robatino fedoraproject.org> writes: > Well, I know it looks odd, but I'm not trying to be perverse, on the > contrary. I needed to generate F14 deltarpm binary rpms that use the new > compression, but wanted to use no more than necessary from F15. It's > necessary to use F15's xz packages,

yum reinstall using non-identical packages with same EVR

2011-02-26 Thread Andre Robatino
seth vidal fedoraproject.org> writes: > Just to make sure I understand you. You're changing the packages to have > different requirements and you're NOT changing the evr of the pkg? > Really? Don't do that. > > but even so - what dep errors are you getting? Can you include them? Well, I know it

Re: yum reinstall using non-identical packages with same EVR

2011-02-26 Thread seth vidal
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 12:38 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Starting with the current F14 deltarpm src rpm, I used rpmbuild to build > binary > rpms that use the new F15 xz compression. These have the same EVR as the > standard F14 binary rpms but require liblzma.so.5 instead of liblzma.so.0. In >

yum reinstall using non-identical packages with same EVR

2011-02-26 Thread Andre Robatino
Starting with the current F14 deltarpm src rpm, I used rpmbuild to build binary rpms that use the new F15 xz compression. These have the same EVR as the standard F14 binary rpms but require liblzma.so.5 instead of liblzma.so.0. In a yum shell transaction which includes the reinstall command to swit