Re: "--replacefiles" %file directive

[Jaco Greeff <jaco puxedo org>]

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Hmmm, rpm-4.0.4 might now Do The Right Thing with
> 	Obsoletes: kdelock-splash
> i.e. erase any/all packages that have
> 	Provides: kdelock-splash

Thanks, I'll give it a bash. (I've been meaning to go to 4.0.4 for a 
while now, still stuck on 4.0.3 - this looks like a good enough reason ;))

> Be forewarned: The above *still* does not fix your problem, as any number
> of legacy versions of rpm are gonna be used to install your package,
> and the traditional behavior of rpm required a package name, not a
> virtual provide, in the OBSOLETENAME field.

Agreed. But at least for people with the latest RPM, the --replacefiles 
would be unnecessary. I'm glad that this now has the "expected" 
behaviour - I agree that new tags will not help with backwards 
compatibitlity at all.

Greetings,
Jaco