[Fedora-packaging] Obsoletes and Provides

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:20:40 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:

> 
> Hey, folks.
> 
> I maintain the package perl-JSON-RPC which I had split in 3 parts:
> 
> * perl-JSON-RPC
> * perl-JSON-RPC-legacy
> * perl-JSON-RPC-legacy-server
> 
> A bug report convinced me this was the wrong way to do it so I split it again,
> this time in 4 parts:
> 
> * perl-JSON-RPC
> * perl-JSON-RPC-Apache2
> * perl-JSON-RPC-CGI
> * perl-JSON-RPC-Daemon
> 
> I believed I had put in the correct Obsoletes and Provides but when I update
> from updates-testing, I end up with this installed on my system:
> 
> * perl-JSON-RPC-legacy-server-1.01-2.fc17.noarch
> * perl-JSON-RPC-Apache2-1.03-1.fc17.noarch
> * perl-JSON-RPC-legacy-1.01-2.fc17.noarch
> * perl-JSON-RPC-CGI-1.03-1.fc17.noarch
> * perl-JSON-RPC-Common-0.06-8.fc17.noarch
> * perl-JSON-RPC-Daemon-1.03-1.fc17.noarch
> * perl-JSON-RPC-1.03-1.fc17.noarch
> 
> The build is here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=328530
> If anyone could tell me what I'm doing wrong, it would be appreciated.

Probably a systematic error in your Obsoletes. I only checked:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=3180999
  perl-JSON-RPC-Daemon-1.03-1.fc17.noarch.rpm

Obsoletes 	perl-JSON-RPC-legacy-server < 1.0.3

Notice the extra dot in that version which is wrong.
The previous version was 1.01, which is higher than 1.0.3:

$ rpmdev-vercmp 1.01 1.0.3
1.01 > 1.0.3

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