On 03.01.2007 13:57, Rex Dieter wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 22:33 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:Patrice's Obsoletes *only* hits the last known *Fedora* releases of openmotif-devel, by carefully using versioned Obsoletes.Wrong, he obsoletes all openmotif versions below a certain version, comprising older ones.I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree at this point. I consider what Patrice is doing perfectly justified/ok, and fail to understand your problems with it.
My 2 cent: What Patrice is doing now is IMHO the best for the current situation -- I tend to think that we should not leave software lying around on peoples hard disk that is not supported/shipped by us anymore (¹).
But Ralf has a point: if the users got openmotif from somewhere else and/or wants it to stay installed it should be possible. But I don't see how we can easily solve this dilemma in a acceptable way for both sides with the current tools (e.g. we would need a better rpm/yum afaics).
CU thl(¹) -- it might confuse yum updates and might have security problems that won't get fixed because the package is not in our repos anymore. That a general problem that also applies for packages that get orphaned. We probably need a meta-package that obsoletes them *or* document that probably in the release notes.