Re: [Fedora-packaging] queries about merging 2 packages

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:29:05PM +0100, Gerard Ryan wrote:
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>  On 05/12/2013 11:20 AM, Björn Esser wrote:
>  > Hello Gerard!
>  > 
>  > EOL procedure on the wiki explicitly names this as first step: Make
>  > sure the package is properly Obsoleted/Provided by something if it 
>  > is being replaced, see Renaming/Replacing Guidelines (on wiki).
>  > 
>  > Since you have pkgfoo-split1 and pkgfoo-split2 and you probably
>  > want to merge them into pkgfoo, i'd suggest to have
>  > Obsolete/Provides like this inside the merged pkg:
>  > 
>  > Obsoletes:	pkgfoo-split1 <= $LAST_VER_IN_F18 Obsoletes:
>  > pkgfoo-split2 <= $LAST_VER_IN_F18 Provides:	pkgfoo-split1 =
>  > %{version} Provides:	pkgfoo-split2 = %{version}
>  > 
>  > If you have pkgfoo and pkgfoo-split and you probably want to merge
>  > them into pkgfoo, i'd suggest to have Obsolete/Provides like this
>  > inside the merged pkg:
>  > 
>  > Obsoletes:	pkgfoo <= $LAST_VER_IN_F18 Obsoletes:	pkgfoo-split <=
>  > $LAST_VER_IN_F18 Provides:	pkgfoo-split = %{version}
>  > 
>  > Just my two cents.
>  > 
>  > BR, Björn
>  > 
>  > Am Sonntag, den 12.05.2013, 04:08 -0500 schrieb Jon Ciesla:
>  >> Sorry for top post, mobile.  I think given the lack of builds toy
>  >> can skip Obsoletes and Provides, and can just follow the EOL
>  >> procedure on the wiki.
>  >> 
>  >> On May 11, 2013 6:01 PM, "Gerard Ryan"
>  >> <galileo(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
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>  
>  Thanks for the replies guys. It's the second scenario in what you've
>  mentioned Björn, there's pkgfoo and pkgfoo-split. The reason I was
>  asking was because I was thinking along the lines of what Jon says --
>  that maybe obsoletes/provides can be skipped. I guess since it's my
>  first time EOL'ing a package, there's no harm in me explicitly putting
>  them in, just to make sure.
>   
If the package pkgfoo-split has never been built then you and Jon are right
that Obsolets/Provides are unneeded.  However, as you say, there's no harm
in having it in there.

-Toshio