[Rpm-maint] [Suse-patch] Revert provides as obsoletes behavior
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at redhat.com
Tue May 22 09:06:45 UTC 2007
Personally I never ever liked the obsoletes on provides behavior, but this
has been in rpm since 2001 according to hg changelogs... I don't think
such a dramatic behavior change is acceptable for a dot-dot-dot-dot
maintenance release.
I would like this changed in future major version though, as the current
behavior makes life miserable in some packaging scenarios.
- Panu -
---
Revert upstream change that uses package provides when searching
for obsoleted packages. It's just too dangerous.
--- ./lib/depends.c.orig 2005-12-14 19:51:34.000000000 +0000
+++ ./lib/depends.c 2006-01-27 21:05:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -294,7 +313,7 @@ addheader:
/* On upgrade, erase older packages of same color (if any). */
- mi = rpmtsInitIterator(ts, RPMTAG_PROVIDENAME, rpmteN(p), 0);
+ mi = rpmtsInitIterator(ts, RPMTAG_NAME, rpmteN(p), 0);
while((oh = rpmdbNextIterator(mi)) != NULL) {
/* Ignore colored packages not in our rainbow. */
@@ -336,7 +355,7 @@ addheader:
if (Name[0] == '/')
mi = rpmtsInitIterator(ts, RPMTAG_BASENAMES, Name, 0);
else
- mi = rpmtsInitIterator(ts, RPMTAG_PROVIDENAME, Name, 0);
+ mi = rpmtsInitIterator(ts, RPMTAG_NAME, Name, 0);
xx = rpmdbPruneIterator(mi,
ts->removedPackages, ts->numRemovedPackages, 1);
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