Packages for everybody !

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Nov 3 18:34:03 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 10:31 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> > >
> > > Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
> > > One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?

> > I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain
> > as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
> > sure the upgrade case will work.
> 
> In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of
> gnome-utils.

Will that ensure that they all get installed on upgrade ? 
I seem to recall instances in the past where we've kept an empty
meta-package around for a release just to get upgrades right.



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