Re: Help Needed: Missing Obsoletes cause upgrade trouble

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Apr 23, 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info> wrote:

> Am Fr, den 23.04.2004 schrieb Michael Schwendt um 16:13:
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 02:22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> [...]
>> >   alsa-driver ./. dev, MAKEDEV
>> >   alsa-lib, alsa-utils, all of alsa* because 1.0.4 > 1.0.3a!
>> 
>> Dangerous. In particular "alsa-driver", which contains many /dev files.

> What can I (as alsa-packager for fedora.us) do to solve this problem?
> Any hints?

IIRC the only conflict is with MAKEDEV.  How about getting your
alsa-driver to Require: the file provided by MAKEDEV, and split that
file out into a separate package, say alsa-driver-MAKEDEV?

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