Heads up: cpuspeed removed from f16+

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jul 19 17:11:06 UTC 2011


Petr Sabata (contyk at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:18:18PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Petr Sabata (contyk at redhat.com) said: 
> > > > Will cpupowerutils obsolete cpufreq so old deployments of cpufreq can be
> > > > garbage-collected ? (yes most people will not need it, but is it not better to
> > > > have something current installed rather than cpufreq living on forever? I'm
> > > > thinking of eternal yum-updated systems here)
> > > 
> > > It's not the case at the moment.
> > > 
> > > I was thinking about it before and didn't really like it.  But it's
> > > just a matter of taste and having yet another Obsoletes/Provides pair in
> > > cpupowerutils.spec won't hurt.
> > 
> > It's probably simplest to have the obsoletes just to get the old code off
> > the system.
> 
> I put Obsoletes (not Provides) in there and in seemed to make no difference. 
> cpupowerutils update or clean cpupowerutils installation don't remove cpuspeed
> from the system.

You have:

Obsoletes:      cpuspeed <= 1:1.5-15

However, the currently built version is 1.5-15.fc15. The added dist tag
makes it compare as greater than just '15'.

Bill


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