Re: Upgrading an RPM with a different name

[Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley novell com>]

On Monday 23 August 2004 01:48 pm, Yochai Shefi-Simchon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to create an RPM called newname. When installed on a computer
> which has the RPM called oldname already installed, I'd like the
> newname RPM to completely replace the oldname RPM. That is, newname is
> actually an upgrade to oldname.
> 
> Is there a way to do that? Or is the only way to put a "Conflicts:
> oldname" tag in the newname RPM and expect the user to manually remove
> oldname before installing newname?
> 

In newname.spec, you should include: 
  Obsoletes: oldname
  Provides: oldname
  Conflicts: oldname

Now newname will be an upgrade to oldname, and will even provide "oldname" in
case some other package depends on "oldname" (but "newname" also satisfies 
the requirement). 

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