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

[Michael Schroeder]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:14:18AM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:05 +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> 
> > Say that there once was a package A in some old release.
> > A was then replaced by B (maybe a package rename), so B contains
> > 
> > B:
> >     Obsoletes: A
> >     Provides: A
> > 
> > Now there may be some alternative for B, C. C also includes the
> > functionality of A, so also C contains
> > 
> > C:
> >     Obsoletes: A
> >     Provides: A
> > 
> > B doesn't conflict with C, but installing C will uninstall B
> > and vice versa.
> > 
> > We experienced this for example with our java packages.
> 
> Was this your java packages or their interaction with eg the Sun ones?
> We experienced the latter.  Do you have a link to the appropriate
> OpenSuSE bugzilla.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224824

Here's another one about xerces:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232127

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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