On 10/27/2017 11:47 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 10/27/2017 11:11 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com <mailto:SteveD@redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello all,
>>
>>     Again thanks for the help!!!
>>
>>     On 10/26/2017 09:09 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>     > William Moreno wrote:
>>     >> Provides: libnfsidmap-devel%{_isa} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
>>     >>
>>     >> Move this line under
>>     >>
>>     >> %package -n libnfsidmap-devel
>>     >>
>>     >> And you should get a clean update path
>>     >
>>     > As Hedayat Vatankhah pointed out, if the package is called libnfsidmap-
>>     > devel, it does not actually need to Provide itself. So the
>>     > Obsoletes/Provides should go away entirely.
>>     >
>>     > Obsoletes/Provides are needed if the BINARY package name changes. E.g., if
>>     > we had:
>>     > %package libnfsidmap-devel
>>     > (without the -n), generating a nfs-utils-libnfsidmap-devel subpackage, THEN
>>     > it would make sense to Obsolete and Provide libnfsidmap-devel in that
>>     > subpackage (NOT in the main package). But since %package -n is used to
>>     > recreate the same old package name, there is nothing to Obsolete and Provide
>>     > to begin with.
>>     I follow what you are saying but... when I remove both the Obsolete and Provide
>>     for libnfsidmap-devel (only Provides: libnfsidmap is set in the nfs-utils section)
>>     the upgrade still wants to remove libnfsidmap-devel package instead of upgrading it.
>>
>>
>> If you have a libnfsidmap subpackage, do NOT include "Provides: libnfsidmap" on the 'nfs-utils' subpackage. They will get in each others' way.
>>
>> I assume that the intent here is to move libnfsidmap from being its own SRPM to being a subpackage of the nfs-utils package, right?
> Yes.
>
>> You don't need to have nfs-utils Provides: or Obsoletes: anything. Just make sure that the > libnfsidmap is sorted higher than the previous standalone version and it should Just Work.
> This makes sense but the reason the libnfsidmap-devel package is not
> be upgraded (or installed) is because:
>
> dnf install /tmp/libnfsidmap-devel*
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> Error:
>  Problem: conflicting requests
>   - nothing provides libnfsidmap = 2.2.1-0.fc28 needed by libnfsidmap-devel-1:2.2.1-0.fc28.x86_64
>
> even though libnfsidmap-2.2.1-0 is installed.
>
> The problem is caused by the Requires: in the libnfsidmap-devel subpackage
>
> %package -n libnfsidmap-devel
> Summary: Development files for the libnfsidmap library
> Group: Development/Libraries
> Requires: pkgconfig
> Requires: libnfsidmap = %{version}-%{release}
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Now if I remove the '%{version}-%{release}' the package
> is installed/upgraded... but seems wrong to me
> the -devel should be tied to a particular version, right?
>
> Plus this was the way it was in the original libnfsidmap rpm.
The answer seems to be put a put a Provides: in the  libnfsidmap subpackage

Thanks for the help!!!