Re: Updating packages with name changes

[Lenz Grimmer <lenz grimmer com>]

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Hi,

Jason Frisvold wrote:

> Just a quick question here..  It seems that MySQL has changed the
> naming scheme of their packages.  How do I force an update of the
> existing package to the new one?
> 
> Existing is MySQL-server-4.1.13-0.i386.rpm
> New is MySQL-server-standard-4.1.14-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
> 
> Is this possible without uninstalling the first one?

Yes:

$ rpm -qp --provides MySQL-server-standard-4.1.14-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
MySQL
MySQL-server
config(MySQL-server-standard) = 4.1.14-0.rhel4
msqlormysql
mysql
mysql-server
MySQL-server-standard = 4.1.14-0.rhel4
$ rpm -qp --obsoletes MySQL-server-standard-4.1.14-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
MySQL
mysql
mysql-server

So it should simply replace the existing package during update. If not,
please file a bug report at http://bugs.mysql.com about it, thanks!

Bye,
	LenZ
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