refuse an upgrade?

[Paul Wouters]

Hi,

Is there an accepted/allowed method for refusing an upgrade in %pre ?

Say there is a package foo for which we only released  version 2.x. An
upgrade from 1.x to 2.x would not work due to database migration issues.
A third party ships 1.x versions. I would like our 2.x package to refuse
to do an upgrade from an 1.x package.

[Rex Dieter]

On 07/24/2012 04:23 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  Is there an accepted/allowed method for refusing an upgrade in %pre ? 
No (imo), by the time the rpm transaction is started, that's too late.

In cases where upgrades are incompatible, change the pkg name (again, 
imo, ymmv, yada yada).

-- rex

[Paul Wouters]

On 07/24/2012 06:43 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  On 07/24/2012 04:23 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there an accepted/allowed method for refusing an upgrade in %pre ?
>
>  No (imo), by the time the rpm transaction is started, that's too late.
>
>  In cases where upgrades are incompatible, change the pkg name (again,
>  imo, ymmv, yada yada).
>  
That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation.

Paul