[Rpm-maint] [Suse-patch] Revert provides as obsoletes behavior

[Michael Schroeder]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:58:47PM +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
> Why updates should not be treated as obsoletes of the pkg name can be 
> easily seen at the example already mentioned earlier.
> 
> python-2.4 (virtual provides python = 2.4)
> python22 provides python = 2.2
> 
> rpm -Uvh python-2.5-1.rpm
> removes both of the packages above.

Maybe, but look at Fedora's python package. It contains:

python-2.4.2:
  Provides: python2 = 2.4.2
  Obsoletes: python2

python22 will probably also contain:
  Provides: python2 = 2.2

Now installung python-2.5-1 also removes both packages.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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