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Re: [PATCH] Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 18, 2008, 14:51 UTC
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On Feb 17, 2008 2:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "yum install git" and "yum install git-core" do not give such an
> error but the latter gives quite a bunch of errors ("yum install
> git" goes alright).  This is problem #2.
You probably want "yum upgrade git-core".

The "problem" is that yum by default doesn't process RPM renames (obsoletes) unless you either have obsoletes=1 in your yum.conf, use "yum --obsoletes update" or use "yum upgrade".

j.
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Message 7 of 11 in “Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.”
  1. Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.Kristian Høgsberg, Feb 15, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 15, 2008
  3. Andreas EricssonFeb 15, 2008
  4. Kristian HøgsbergFeb 15, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2008
  7. Jay SoffianFeb 18, 2008
  8. Kristian HøgsbergFeb 18, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2008
  10. Kristian HøgsbergFeb 18, 2008
  11. Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.Kristian Høgsberg, Feb 19, 2008

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