Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 2, 2007, 08:06 UTC
Message-ID: <85odgltrtj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <46DA5F33.2020005@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for
>>   fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/.
>>
>
> There seems to be an issue with this and RPMS.
>
> In particular, there is no longer a git-p4 RPMS, which prevents git
> from getting upgraded at all by yum.
>
> Anyone who knows yum well enough to explain what needs to be done so
> that yum knows this is obsolete?

Probably a matter of the correct spec file.  In auctex.spec, we have

Summary: 	Enhanced TeX modes for Emacsen
Name: 		auctex
Version: 	11.84
Release: 	1%{distri}
License: 	GPL
Group: 		%{commongroup}
URL: 		http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
Source0:        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildArchitectures: noarch
BuildRoot: 	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-root

%description AUCTeX is [...]

%package emacs
Summary: 	Enhanced TeX modes for GNU Emacs
Group:          %{commongroup}
Requires: 	emacs >= 21
Obsoletes:      ge_auc emacs-auctex auctex preview-latex-emacs
Conflicts:      emacspeak < 18
Provides:       auctex

So auctex-emacs obsoletes the previous "auctex" package and some other packages. It also provides "auctex" since some other packages might require it.

Basically, you need to provide everything that a third-party package might have asked for, and you need to obsolete everything that you intend to replace.

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