From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:30:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5314BC1D.1020403@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393867623.4058.144.camel@Solace>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-03 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-03 14:59 [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target George Dunlap
2014-03-03 16:07 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 22:34 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-03 23:08 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-03 23:37 ` M A Young
2014-03-03 23:46 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-03 23:52 ` M A Young
2014-03-04 10:26 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 16:23 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 16:34 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 16:36 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 17:31 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 17:23 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 17:27 ` Dario Faggioli
2014-03-03 17:30 ` George Dunlap [this message]
2014-03-03 17:59 ` Ian Jackson
2014-03-03 22:53 ` Dario Faggioli
2014-03-03 23:11 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-04 12:19 ` Ian Jackson
2014-03-03 18:19 ` Ian Campbell
2014-03-03 23:06 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 20:51 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-04 11:41 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 22:52 ` Dario Faggioli
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