rpm4/rpm5 incompat: rpm5 firing on provides

Jan Rękorajski baggins at pld-linux.org
Tue Oct 30 17:41:30 CET 2012


On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> On 30.10.2012 16:58, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> >> >so, it's already side effect of the uwanted trigger. indeed, the trigger could be fixed not to give error on missing files it tries to move
> >> >
> > You might state what you expect to happen instead of just listing
> > certain commands under the pretense rpm4/rpm5 incompatibilities
> > in the future.
> i am not sure what to expect, is the direction to fix all packages (how 
> to find them), or keep legacy behaviour for some time. that's why i 
> wrote to list

IMO we should fix problematic packages, I don't see the need to keep old
behavior. I didn't switch to rpm5 to later reintroduce all rpm4 quirks.

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