[Rpm-maint] Re: [Rpm-devel] RPM Obsoletes unversioned Provides too eagerly

[Paul Nasrat]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:53 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:

> We do have a SRPM that people can go, grab the payload from Sun and them 
> build by themselves a set of RPMs running rpmbuild etc.
> 
> But go and try convincing your Java application developers to do that? 
> They prefer grabbing the RPM from Sun, because it is "ready" and just 
> adding the -compat bits we provide.  They don't want to build the RPMs 
> themselves.
> 
> Anyway, that Obsoletes(noprovides) would do the trick.  It seems easy 
> enough to implememnt if all agree that it is a good feature.

We are not implementing new spec syntax as a packaging workaround - fix
the package, in fact sun allow this to happen now:

https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/

Paul