dual lived modules

Iain Arnell iarnell at gmail.com
Sat Mar 13 06:36:45 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:31 +0100
> Iain Arnell <iarnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Marcela Maslanova
>> <mmaslano at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > This should test whether yum can handle lower version in main and
>> > higher in separated package (Module::Build). The update of packages
>> > went fine if 'Obsoletes' is used in new package [2].
>>
>> Aha. Of course - 'Obsoletes' is necessary, but not why you think.  The
>> problem here is that we may be moving from arch-dependent packages
>> (i.e. 1:perl-Module-Build-0.3500-110.fc13.x86_64) to noarch packages
>> (i.e. 1:perl-Module-Build-0.3603-1.perltestrepo.noarch). Even though
>> ENVR is higher in the noarch package, yum wont automatically update
>> from arch-dependant to noarch.
>
> That shouldn't be the case any more:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502401
> (fixed in F-11, at least it's supposed to be)

Hmmn. Confirmed - I have no problem with yum updating from current
1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.07-87.fc12.x86_64 in F12 to locally built
1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-1.fc12.noarch. Are you running some old version
of yum Marcela?


-- 
Iain.



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