rpm definitions of Obsoletes/Provides/... (was: RFC: Soname in rpm name)

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:56:17AM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote: Unless it is provided by the same package like the usual Provides: foo Obsoletes: foo [<= ...] But it is even worse, if two different packages provide/obsolete foo, now they obsolete each-other, too. That's unexpected behaviour IMHO. Furthermore Provides: currently also effectively implies Obsoletes, but only for non-virtual Provides (e.g. a package name). That's the bug^Wfeature that has troubled PyVault and others so much. So I agree with Jeff. There is a high need for strict definitions of what these semantics express and what rpm (and thus rpm-based resolvers) should do with it. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net