Re: [PATCH] Make the git metapackage require the same version of the subpackages.

James Bowes [off-list ref] writes:

Without explicit version deps in the rpm spec file, 'yum update git'
effectively does nothing. Require explicit versions of the subpackages, so that
they get pulled in on an update.

Signed-off-by: James Bowes <redacted>

I am asking as an RPM illiterate, not questioning the validity
of what your patch does.

The approach your patch takes feels like the right way we should
have taken from the beginning.  Does this supersede the "fix" in
5587cac28be66acf5edc2a4b83b67c8cfffbc5e9 (GIT 1.5.3.1: obsolete
git-p4 in RPM spec file)?  IOW, if we had Requires for the same
version from the beginning, we wouldn't have had the problem
when we dropped git-p4 package?

On Jan 6, 2008 3:24 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

James Bowes [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Without explicit version deps in the rpm spec file, 'yum update git'
effectively does nothing. Require explicit versions of the subpackages, so that
they get pulled in on an update.

Signed-off-by: James Bowes <redacted>

I am asking as an RPM illiterate, not questioning the validity
of what your patch does.

The approach your patch takes feels like the right way we should
have taken from the beginning.  Does this supersede the "fix" in
5587cac28be66acf5edc2a4b83b67c8cfffbc5e9 (GIT 1.5.3.1: obsolete
git-p4 in RPM spec file)?  IOW, if we had Requires for the same
version from the beginning, we wouldn't have had the problem
when we dropped git-p4 package?

I believe the obsolete is still needed, as you'd need a way to tell
rpm to just get rid of git-p4 entirely.

-James