[EPEL-devel] transitioning packages to EPEL version

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 10/16/2014 02:32 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 11:40, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
>> I have previously installed backuppc 3.1.0 from centos 5 testing. The
>> package is now not maintaned by centos anymore.
>>
>> EPEL have BackupPC version 3.3.0, but yum check-update did not suggest that
>> this package is a replacement for the backuppc package by centos
> It isn't. At least not according to package name (hint: package names
> are case-sensitive). The requisite Obsoletes: tag is most probably missing
> as well in the EPEL package.
>
>> How do I transition the backuppc centos to BackupPC EPEL?
> You have to either fix the EPEL package .spec file yourself and rebuild
> or file a bug against the package.
Or backup configs, erase old package, install new package, restore configs.

     Manuel