Help Needed: Missing Obsoletes cause upgrade trouble

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sat May 1 11:45:40 UTC 2004


On 01 May 2004 02:50:14 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.xxx> 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?

After analyzing the conflict in detail, an obvious suggestion [posted
off-list] has been to simply copy the conflicting file from MAKEDEV and
include it in the alsa-driver package, too. That would get rid of the
conflict.





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