[Fedora-packaging] queries about merging 2 packages

[Björn Esser]

Hello Gerard!

EOL procedure on the wiki explicitly names this as first step:
Make sure the package is properly Obsoleted/Provided by something if it
is being replaced, see Renaming/Replacing Guidelines (on wiki).

Since you have pkgfoo-split1 and pkgfoo-split2 and you probably want to
merge them into pkgfoo, i'd suggest to have Obsolete/Provides like this
inside the merged pkg:

Obsoletes:	pkgfoo-split1 <= $LAST_VER_IN_F18
Obsoletes:	pkgfoo-split2 <= $LAST_VER_IN_F18
Provides:	pkgfoo-split1 = %{version}
Provides:	pkgfoo-split2 = %{version}

If you have pkgfoo and pkgfoo-split and you probably want to merge them
into pkgfoo, i'd suggest to have Obsolete/Provides like this inside the
merged pkg:

Obsoletes:	pkgfoo <= $LAST_VER_IN_F18
Obsoletes:	pkgfoo-split <= $LAST_VER_IN_F18
Provides:	pkgfoo-split = %{version}

Just my two cents.

BR,
  Björn

Am Sonntag, den 12.05.2013, 04:08 -0500 schrieb Jon Ciesla:
> Sorry for top post, mobile.  I think given the lack of builds toy can
> skip Obsoletes and Provides, and can just follow the EOL procedure on
> the wiki.
> 
> On May 11, 2013 6:01 PM, "Gerard Ryan" <galileo at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
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>         Hi packaging,
>         
>         I've got two packages which should be one. The reason they
>         were two
>         before was because of some strange circular dependencies,
>         iirc. This
>         doesn't apply anymore since the upstream project have moved
>         from CVS
>         to Git, and seem to have moved some things between some of
>         their
>         subproject repositories to fix the circular dependency
>         problem.
>         
>         So, the package that I want to drop hasn't been built for
>         Rawhide or
>         F19 yet, and I don't think it should be. I haven't updated the
>         main
>         package to merge in the split one yet (it's ready, just
>         waiting for
>         broken deps). My questions are mainly about what steps do I
>         need to do
>         to do this as cleanly as possible:
>         
>         - - Do I need to manually put in any 'Obsoletes' or 'Provides'
>         or
>         anything like that? Nothing else uses the split package apart
>         from a
>         couple of my other packages, which I will remove
>         (Build)Requires from.
>         
>         - - Since it hasn't been built in F19 yet, is there anything I
>         need to
>         do to other than retire it in pkgdb? I've never dropped or
>         retired any
>         packages so I'm not sure of the steps that need to be done.
>         
>         Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,
>         Gerard.
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