Re: [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 03/03/2014 05:27 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On lun, 2014-03-03 at 18:23 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 03, George Dunlap wrote:
>>
>>>> In this case, to avoid package conflicts, add some tags like:
>>>> Obsoletes: xen-libs
>>>> Obsoletes: xen-tools
>>> What exactly would this be for?
>> In my case it would replace the distro xen,xen-libs,xen-tools.rpm with
>> the new xen.rpm. If none of these packages are installed, its a nop.
>>
> +1
>
> In principle, I'd agree with George on the fact that is should well be
> the developer to take care of this.
>
> However, having the system thinking that, e.g., xen-libs is installed,
> would allow one to install xen related libvirt distro packages, and test
> them with the latest Xen, which would be pretty cool!

Ah, you mean, it *also* counts as one of those packages for dependency 
tracking?

I can definitely see how that could be useful.

Any opinions, Ian / Ian?

  -George