On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 19:06 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
Has anyone ever experimented with or considered using self-Obsoletes
as
an alternative to Epoch bumps using plain rpm CLI and various
depsolvers?
Assuming there's a finite and known set of "supported" packages, listing
all of them as an explicit, exact (note: always "=")
Obsoletes: %{name} = $v-$r
well to make it catch older ones you'd need <= $v-$r
and at that point wouldn't the package be obsoleting itself b/c of the
version confusion?
-sv