Help Needed: Missing Obsoletes cause upgrade trouble

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:03:07 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:37:53 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>>>  alsa-driver ./. dev, MAKEDEV
> >>>>  alsa-lib, alsa-utils, all of alsa* because 1.0.4 > 1.0.3a!
> >>>
> >>>Dangerous. In particular "alsa-driver", which contains many /dev files.
> >>
> >>What can I (as alsa-packager for fedora.us) do to solve this problem?
> >>Any hints?
> > 
> > 
> > Nothing I know of. I don't know about any ways to specify that a package
> > obsoletes itself during an upgrade. Any packages which are not listed as
> > "Obsoletes:" in a new package are not removed.
> > 
> 
> Has the ABI/API changed from 1.0.3a to 1.0.4?

No.

"alsa-driver" is the problem, because it contains ALSA device files
found in "dev" package and scripts found in "MAKEDEV" package.