Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 03, George Dunlap wrote:

> Ah, you mean, it *also* counts as one of those packages for dependency
> tracking?

No. Obsoletes does just what the name suggests: It means the new
xen.rpm will replace an existing xen.rpm and also packages providing or
being named like the strings in the Obsoletes: tag.

Adding a Provides: tag is just for package managers above rpm as a hint
during dist upgrade to track package renames.

For the purpose of xen-unstable a "Name: xen" and "Obsoletes: xen-xyz"
is the right way to replace the distro provided xen related packages
with the catch-all single selfcompiled xen.rpm.


Olaf

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