On Nov 26, 2012 7:39 AM, "Richard Hughes" <hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26 November 2012 15:19, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > Imo, the Obsoletes/Provides should only go in the new and sepearate -qt
> > package
>
> Sure, that's somewhat easier. Something like:
>
> Obsoletes: PackageKit-qt < 0.8.6
> Provides: PackageKit-qt = 0.8.6
>

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages

So assuming that the split out package has a higher version, the new package should have

Obsoletes: PackageKit-qt <= 0.8.7 #must be greater than the last nevr so it has to be one higher version or release number.
Provides: PackageKit-qt = %{version}-%{release}