[users] Circular obsoletes between Dries and FE6 rrdtool Perl bindings

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Dec 5 21:47:38 CET 2006


Wil Cooley wrote:
> There seems to be a circular obsolescence between the 'perl-rrdtool'
> from Dries/RPMForge and 'rrdtool-perl' from Fedora Extras for FC6.
> Install one and the other obsoletes it.  

rpmforge's perl-rrdtool includes
Obsoletes: rrdtool-perl <= %{version}
but
Obsoletes: rrdtool-perl < %{version}-%{release}
would be better, to avoid the circular Obsoletes,
and maybe adding:
Provides:  rrdtool-perl = %{version}-%{release}
wouldn't hurt.

-- Rex


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