Re: [Rpm-maint] Enforce install/erase order without adding a Requires:

2010-11-26 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, FlorianFesti wrote: There have been various issues with packages that demand a special order of installation but do not want to Require the package to be installed first. So a tag that is like Requires: during ordering but ignored o

Re: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.9.0 alpha available

2010-11-26 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:55:17PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:48:08AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > If you have time to look at the more than one tilde

Re: [Rpm-maint] Enforce install/erase order without adding a Requires:

2010-11-26 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:22:56AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Kernel initrd creation (mkinitrd, dracut) mechanisms have special needs: > they can have support for arbitrary number of rare, special hardware > packeges that shouldn't be dragged in on every installation. Yet if those > optiona

Re: [Rpm-maint] Enforce install/erase order without adding a Requires:

2010-11-26 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:22:56AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: Kernel initrd creation (mkinitrd, dracut) mechanisms have special needs: they can have support for arbitrary number of rare, special hardware packeges that shouldn't be dragged in on e

Re: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.9.0 alpha available

2010-11-26 Thread devzero2000
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:55:17PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:48:08AM +0200, Panu Matilaine

Re: [Rpm-maint] Enforce install/erase order without adding a Requires:

2010-11-26 Thread Phil Knirsch
On 11/26/2010 10:53 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:22:56AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: Kernel initrd creation (mkinitrd, dracut) mechanisms have special needs: they can have support for arbitrary number of rare, special har

Re: [Rpm-maint] [RFC/PATCH] comparisons without release

2010-11-26 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:43:18PM +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote: > Currently [1], if a package has > Provides: foo = 1.2 > And another package has > Conflicts: foo < 1.2-1 > > The conflict does not trigger, as the releases will be ignored if one of the > compared EVRs does not have it. (mdv bug #5

Re: [Rpm-maint] [RFC/PATCH] comparisons without release

2010-11-26 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 06:42:59PM +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:43:18PM +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote: > > Currently [1], if a package has > > Provides: foo = 1.2 > > And another package has > > Conflicts: foo < 1.2-1 > > > > The conflict does not trigger, as the relea