[Fedora-packaging] queries about merging 2 packages

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:29:05PM +0100, Gerard Ryan wrote:
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> On 05/12/2013 11:20 AM, Björn Esser wrote:
> > 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:
> > <snip>
> 
> Thanks for the replies guys. It's the second scenario in what you've
> mentioned Björn, there's pkgfoo and pkgfoo-split. The reason I was
> asking was because I was thinking along the lines of what Jon says --
> that maybe obsoletes/provides can be skipped. I guess since it's my
> first time EOL'ing a package, there's no harm in me explicitly putting
> them in, just to make sure.
> 
If the package pkgfoo-split has never been built then you and Jon are right
that Obsolets/Provides are unneeded.  However, as you say, there's no harm
in having it in there.

-Toshio
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