Re: [PATCH] Make the git metapackage require the same version of the subpackages.

From: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2008, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <3f80363f0801061313o514fa01bje354503483db47ab@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vprwe4s8e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Jan 6, 2008 3:24 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com> writes:
>
> > Without explicit version deps in the rpm spec file, 'yum update git'
> > effectively does nothing. Require explicit versions of the subpackages, so that
> > they get pulled in on an update.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com>
>
> I am asking as an RPM illiterate, not questioning the validity
> of what your patch does.
>
> The approach your patch takes feels like the right way we should
> have taken from the beginning.  Does this supersede the "fix" in
> 5587cac28be66acf5edc2a4b83b67c8cfffbc5e9 (GIT 1.5.3.1: obsolete
> git-p4 in RPM spec file)?  IOW, if we had Requires for the same
> version from the beginning, we wouldn't have had the problem
> when we dropped git-p4 package?

I believe the obsolete is still needed, as you'd need a way to tell rpm to just get rid of git-p4 entirely.

-James