On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 6:01 AM Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 05:21:40AM -0500, Josef Ridky wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Does anyone know, how can I obsolete modular version of package? > > > > TL;DR > > > > I have one package (gimp) that is now available as RPM and Module at the > > same time in Fedora. Due of modular version makes issues to users during > > system upgrade, I've decided to remove (obsolete) modular version of gimp > > and keep the RPM version only. > > > > Question is, How can I set new RPM build to be the replacement for the > > modular one? Especially, is it possible, when someone with modular gimp > > installed types `dnf upgrade gimp`, that command will remove modular gimp > > and installs new RPM instead? > > > RPM Obsolets triggers a package removal and can be placed into any package. > However, you cannot obsolete a module (i.e. disable or reset it) > programatically. This is by design an action that needs an explicit user's > consent. If you need modularity to support marking modules end-of-life, > I recommend you contacting Modularity team (psabata) that has been requested > to implement this feature for a long time. >
I still can't believe that anyone thought this was okay... :( > Since any active module content masks same-named non-modular packages, you > cannot uninstall the modular gimp package by putting an Obsoletes into the > non-modular gimp package. Until the user explicitly disables the module, your > non-modular gimp will be invisible and thus the Obsoletes should not take any > effect. > > But there is an solution in Fedora if your module exists in updates repository > only. Because Fedora mirrors keep only the latest module version, it should > be possible to place another package into the module, make it Obsolete and > Provide the modular gimp package. This causes DNF to replace the modular > gimp package with the another package. After that DNF should make the > non-modular gimp visible. Then you can release a non-modular gimp with higher > release than the Provided "gimp" symbol and that will obsolete the another > package. This should DNF make to replace the modular another package with your > non-modular gimp package. > > But this only a theory. Maybe it won't work because of a caching of the > modular metadata somewhere. > This theory doesn't work if your module had defaults because all the YAML documents are downloaded and applied to DNF locally. If it didn't, then it'd work. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
