rpm, alternatives and moving a file between packages

Stephen Warren s-t-rhbugzilla at wwwdotorg.org
Sat Feb 23 07:57:18 UTC 2008


Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 00:48 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> Any thoughts/pointers welcome.
> 
> Look at how sendmail, postfix, exim, etc. do it.

I did. I have the basic alternatives stuff working great in the case
where the original unison package was not installed. However, the issue
is with a "yum update" both removing the old unison package (which
didn't use alternatives) and installing the new alternatives-based
package at the same time.




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