Guiding co-dependent RPM packages to swap nicely

[Miro Hrončok]

On 08. 03. 24 11:43, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Miro Hrončok:
> 
>> On my system, I have postgresql16 and postgresql16-plugin installed
>> and I want to "upgrade" to postgresql20*.
>>
>> Using my distribution package manager, I would want to run something like:
>>    dnf swap postgresql16 postgresql20
>>
>> However that will fail, as the package manager does not know I want to
>> also swap postgresql16-plugin with postgresql20-plugin.
>>
>> Is there something I can do as a package maintainer to "guide" the
>> co-dependent swap case?
> 
> Have you tried using “dnf shell” and entering both swap commands there/

I am actually looking for a metadata solution that would guide the package 
manager to do it for me, not for a way to swap them manually.

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