building a package that can not be upgraded

[Valery Reznic]

I never said package that can't be updated useless, I just asked what it can be used for,
because my imagination has it's limits.

In your example - you said yourself  - one as easily can just remove package from repository.
OK, with non-upgradable package may be one will get more clear message. Good thing too.


Any other uses?

Valery.





>________________________________
> From: Stuart D Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
>To: rpm-list at lists.rpm.org 
>Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 8:49 PM
>Subject: Re: building a package that can not be upgraded
> 
>
>On 07/05/2012 05:09 PM, Valery Reznic expounded in part: 
>You can write pre-install script that check number of installed package instances ($1, iirc) and if
>>package already installed, then exit with error message and non-zero status.
>>
>>
>>But why do you want to do such a thing?
>>
Like /dev/null and /dev/full, such boundary conditions often have uses.  For instance, how about an RPM package that can't be *installed*?  Why would you want such an apparently useless thing?  Well, right off, I could see it being useful in some repository to replace a broken package - effectively also preventing anything depending on it from being installed with a clean error.  (Although simply removing the broken package from yum repo results in a reasonable error message.)  
>
>In fact, the use case for "can't be upgraded" in this instance is a
    broken package.  Eventually, the package will be fixed, and *then*
    you will want to upgrade it.  So maybe you want to create a new
    release of the current (broken) version that can't be installed. 
    That will prevent updates with yum until you get it fixed.
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