[Fedora-packaging] refuse an upgrade?

Paul Wouters pwouters at redhat.com
Wed Jul 25 14:19:26 UTC 2012


On 07/24/2012 06:43 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 07/24/2012 04:23 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there an accepted/allowed method for refusing an upgrade in %pre ?
>
> No (imo), by the time the rpm transaction is started, that's too late.
>
> In cases where upgrades are incompatible, change the pkg name (again,
> imo, ymmv, yada yada).
>

That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation.

Paul



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