On 5/12/20 2:00 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> Le mar. 12 mai 2020 à 13:46, Farkas Levente <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>
>> hi,
>> for some reason we still need gstreamer-0.10 packages on fedora-32 and
>> rhel/centos-8. we manage to build them and use them. unfortunately all
>> of these packages removed at all updates. the reason for this is the
>> rpmfusion-free-obsolete-packages rpmfusion-nonfree-obsolete-packages
>> packages which always installed (even if we remove them) and as they
>> obsoletes gstreamer-0.10 packages the result on a fully updated system
>> is a few package removal.
>>
>> imho it'd be useful if there can be a setting which prevent this very
>> aggressive deletion of packages.
> 
> Unfortunately, it's still difficult to take into account "downstream users".
> So I instead, I would suggest to import the base gstreamer packages
> into rpmfusion-free, and build everything there so we can provide a
> side repository that will be de-activated by default.
> 
> Does it seems appropriate ?

not really.
the core of the problem is that rpmfusion-free-obsolete-packages
rpmfusion-nonfree-obsolete-packages obsoletes these packages and has
much larger version than gstreamer*.

imho it's a very bad solution that
rpmfusion-free-obsolete-packages
provides and obsoletes a LOTS of other packages. imho the rpm's
obsoletes is not design for this. the original goal was to be able to
provides another name for a packages.

so this very dirty trick what rpmfusion-free-obsolete-packages and
rpmfusion-nonfree-obsolete-packages do is not normal. what's more
prevent anyone to use any of these packages even from different repo or
build by themselves!


-- 
  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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