Help Needed: Missing Obsoletes cause upgrade trouble
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Sat Apr 24 18:03:07 UTC 2004
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:37:53 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
>
>>[...]
>>
>>>> alsa-driver ./. dev, MAKEDEV
>>>> alsa-lib, alsa-utils, all of alsa* because 1.0.4 > 1.0.3a!
>>>
>>>Dangerous. In particular "alsa-driver", which contains many /dev files.
>>
>>What can I (as alsa-packager for fedora.us) do to solve this problem?
>>Any hints?
>
>
> Nothing I know of. I don't know about any ways to specify that a package
> obsoletes itself during an upgrade. Any packages which are not listed as
> "Obsoletes:" in a new package are not removed.
>
Has the ABI/API changed from 1.0.3a to 1.0.4?
Warren
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