[Fedora-packaging] Re: DKMS into Fedora Extras

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Wed Feb 23 12:30:44 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 02:19 -0500, seth vidal wrote:

>We could ask if, as an option for adding a package into the ts as an
>update it takes an optional header of the package it is updating.
>
>I'm not sure how ugly this would be for rpm but it would allow for the
>flexibility we'd need/want here.
>
>is Paul on this list? any ideas?

Yes, I'm here.  Just playing catch up.  I'll try and digest these things
from an rpm/rpm-python point of view.

If I'm understanding it you want something ala:

ts.addReplacement(hdr1, hdr2)

which is equivalent to:

addInstall(hdr1, blah, 'i')
addErase(hdr2)

or am I just on crack.

Paul




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