On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Kalev Lember <kalevlem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/02/2016 06:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> On 09/02/2016 12:54 PM, Robbie Harwood wrote: >>> Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> writes: >>> >>>> On 09/02/2016 07:14 AM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: >>>>> >>>>> * Weird obsoletes (broken) >>>>> "krb5-server" has "Obsoletes: krb5-server-1.14.3-8.fc26.i686". >>>>> Basically it will not obsolete anything because it's threated as >>>>> package name (and we definitely don't have such package name). >>>> >>>> This definitely looks odd... Robbie? >>> >>> This is part of something I was requested to add (from the RHEL >>> packaging where we have lines like `Obsoletes: >>> krb5-server-1.11.3-49.el7.i686`, added by a previous maintainer) wherein >>> the 64-bit versions of packages need to obsolete the 32-bit versions >>> because we run into problems if both are installed. >>> >>> If what's in the spec file is not the correct way to accomplish that, >>> what is? I am unable to find documentation for any of this. >>> >> >> Is that because some machines at one point did have both installed? That's >> kind >> of a mess. I'd recommend taking that discussion to >> packag...@lists.fedoraproject.org and see what they recommend. > > I think the issue here is just that the syntax is wrong. > > Instead of what's right now, > > Obsoletes: krb5-server-1.11.3-49.el7.i686 > > it should be: > > Obsoletes: krb5-server <= 1.11.3-49.el7.i686 > > ... or something along those lines. Right now the problem is that dnf > considers the whole string "krb5-server-1.11.3-49.el7.i686" to be a > package name while the package name is really "krb5-server". This makes > the obsoletes just plain not do anything right now since they don't > match any package name. DNF has nothing to do with Obsoletes. It's up to RPM how to handle it.
tl;dr You can't replace i686 with x86_64 package. > > -- > Kalev > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- -Igor Gnatenko -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
