In similar situations I've used something like
Conflicts: package-doc < 6.0.0
On Mon, 2022-01-31 at 16:01 -0500, Steven A. Falco wrote:
You just asked the same question that I did. :-)
I think the Obsoletes line is correct. Once I get a ruling on that
from the experts, I'll add it to the package.
Steve
On 1/31/22 03:58 PM, przemek klosowski via devel wrote:
> During recent major version update, some files were moved from
> <package>-doc to <package>, and as a result updates of <package>
> fail due to a file conflict. Manual update of <package>-doc
> resolves this, of course.
>
> A simple solution would be to declare that <package>
>
> Required: package-doc >= 6.0.0
>
> but that would force the install of the docs package if it wasn't
> already there.
>
> Is there a way to declare a dependency only if the other package is
> present/installed? Would
>
> Obsoletes: package-doc < 6.0.0
>
> be the right thing to do?
--
Ken Gaillot <kgaillot(a)redhat.com>