From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:30:05 +0000 Message-ID: <5314BC1D.1020403@eu.citrix.com> References: <1393858780-11628-1-git-send-email-george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> <20140303162358.GA23543@aepfle.de> <5314AF0C.6080708@eu.citrix.com> <20140303172336.GA26596@aepfle.de> <1393867623.4058.144.camel@Solace> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1393867623.4058.144.camel@Solace> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Dario Faggioli , Olaf Hering Cc: Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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