Re: Migrating sub-package to a different package: How to resolve file conflicts
On 06/13/2017 10:25 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Tom Stellard wrote:
>
>> I'm working on moving the llvm-devel sub-package from the llvm package to
>> a new llvm4.0 package, however, when I upgrade from the llvm sub-package
>> to the llvm4.0 sub-package, I am getting file conflicts.
> ...
>> Error: Transaction check error:
>> file /usr/include/llvm from install of llvm-devel-4.0.0-13.fc27.x86_64
>> conflicts with file from package llvm-devel-4.0.0-4.fc27.x86_64 file
>> /usr/include/llvm-c from install of llvm-devel-4.0.0-13.fc27.x86_64
>> conflicts with file from package llvm-devel-4.0.0-4.fc27.x86_64
>
>> Is this a bug in dnf/rpm or am I doing something wrong with the spec
>> files?
>
> IMO, you're doing nothing wrong, it's a dnf/rpm bug. dnf is supposed to
> implicitly Obsoletes/replace older packages of the same name (in general,
> though there are exceptions like "kernel")
Occurs to me you could avoid/skip relying on the implicit replacement, and
make it *explicit*, but adding
Obsoletes: llvm-devel < 4.0.0-13
to the new llvm-devel subpkg
I just tried this, but I still get the same error as before. Could there
be some other issue?
Here is the updated spec file:
http://copr-dist-git.fedorainfracloud.org/cgit/tstellar/llvm-versioned/ll...
-Tom