Per-Product Config file divergence

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 03/17/2014 09:13 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 08:26:52AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> [1] I could be wrong here; it depends on how RPM and YUM handles
>> 'yum remove fedora-release-cloud; yum install
>> fedora-release-server'. Lets assume that foo has foo-config-cloud
>> installed. I see three possible outcomes to 'yum remove
>> fedora-release-cloud': 1)  foo-config-cloud is removed and
>> foo-config-default is installed 2)  foo-config-cloud remains on
>> the system, irrespective of the presence of fedora-release-cloud 
>> 3)  The transaction aborts because of unsatisfied dependencies.
> 
> Not sure about with DNF, but with yum we could use "yum swap"
> instead of separate remove and install commands.
> 

Hmm, you learn something new every day. I didn't know about that one.
I assume it handles dependency satisfying properly? So if I did 'yum
swap python-django14 python-django' it wouldn't have issues with
eclipse-pydev (as a recent example I was grumbling about).

> Worst case, we write a plugin to handle this "adoption" case.



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