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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2008, 18:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7ih2p0wk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1203350676.4082.0.camel@gaara.boston.redhat.com>

Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> writes:

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> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:51 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
>> 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".
>
> Ah, that's what it is.  Thanks, I wasn't aware of this issue.

Does that mean that the test I did and the problem I saw were end-user errors and that there is no proble with your patch and I can use it as-is to cut 1.5.4.3 and future ones?

That's a great news.

But perhaps we would need some description/warning to help end users as clueless as I am with respect to yum in the release notes and/or announcements?

Could you resend the patch with a commit log message that I can later reuse parts from for such a purpose, with a sign-off please?