4ti2 / Re: Obsoletes, Obsoletes, Obsoletes

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 00:00:15 UTC 2013


On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:45:47 -0600, Jerry James wrote:

> >   latte-integrale
> >       4ti2-0:1.5-3.fc18.i686  isn't obsoleted
> >       4ti2 < 0:1.5-1  obsoleted by  4ti2-0:1.5-10.fc20.i686

> Or are you saying that even the Obsoletes
> tag is unnecessary since only the source RPM name changed, but not the
> binary RPM name?

You've figured it out for yourself. Congrats! ;)

No binary rpm gets "renamed" in that case. The 4ti2 packages built from
the new src.rpm would be ordinary updates/upgrades for the builds from the
older src.rpm, provided that their EVR is higher.


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