RFC: Rethinking EPEL at FUDcon Lawrence 2013

[Matthias Runge]

On 11/22/2012 11:42 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:40:28AM +0100, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:30:27AM +0100, Matthias Runge wrote:
>>>
>>> You're thinking about php53 also providing php = %{version}-%{release}?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> Otherwise you'd produce an interesting pile of dependencies. Those
>>> packages also need to obsolete the older packages and must be marked as
>>
>> They can.
> 
> Actually -- maybe not. We would need to check if that would lead yum
> to upgrade php53 to php54 because php53 was providing php = 5.3 and
> php54 obsoleted php < 5.4.
> 
Exactly.

I took that road with Django14 as an updated Django package. If I
remember right, I was forced to use conflict to prevent version
upgrades, but I might be wrong.

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Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>
               <mrunge at fedoraproject.org>