Bug 24953

Summary:	rpm -F and multiple or deprecated versions of packages
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Harrington <jhmail>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	herrold, jhmail
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Description Joe Harrington 2001-01-25 19:10:41 UTC

If I have several versions of a package on an rpm -Fvh command line, there
are often conflicts or dependency problems reported between the older and
newer versions of the same package.  rpm -F should first select the newest
version of each duplicate package from its command line and only then check
for conflicts and dependencies.

A common place for this to happen is when someone grabs the updates
directory from the Red Hat FTP server, which contains several versions of a
package, and does rpm -Fvh * in that directory.

Likewise, there should be a way for a package to say that it deprecates a
package of a different name.  For example, php-4.0.1pl1 contains the
previous php package and the previous mod_php package, both of which are
also updates to the release php and therefore in the Red Hat updates
directory.  php-4.0.1pl1 should be able to tell rpm that it obsoletes the
previous mod_php, even if the previous mod_php is on the same command line
(as it might be in the example above).

--jh--

Comment 1 Nick Urbanik 2001-01-27 06:26:31 UTC

Even when all the older packages are removed, rpm still requires manually
installing some packages first.  This was disappointing, since I went to the
trouble of writing a Perl program to move older packages to another directory.

For example, I had to install the mysql packages before I could install the php
packages; the dependencies should be sorted automatically.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-20 19:01:17 UTC

rpm-4.1 handles duplicate packages on the
CLI, preferring the newest N-EVR (but not yet
arch scoring).

AFAIK, Obsoletes: works as you've asked.

And, finally, if you install the rpmdb-redhat
package, rpm-4.1 will suggest the next level
of packages that need to be added to the command.
Not yet a full blown dependency solver, but progress
no less.