Bug 1029293 - RPMs should Require API version to prevent old packages from being installed on a publican website.
Summary: RPMs should Require API version to prevent old packages from being installed ...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Publican
Classification: Community
Component: publican
Version: 3.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: 4.1
Assignee: Jeff Fearn 🐞
QA Contact: Ruediger Landmann
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-12 05:51 UTC by Marco Grigull
Modified: 2014-05-05 06:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 4.1.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-05-05 06:03:24 UTC

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Description Marco Grigull 2013-11-12 05:51:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
publican v3 and v4 docs packages and deps (such as web packages and publican itself) are not compatible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.99

How reproducible:
install package generated with one version of publican on to a host running another.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
book_version is a required argument at /usr/bin/publican line 689

Expected results:
no error

Additional info:
Comment 2 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2014-03-27 01:06:25 UTC 
Expected results:
no error

This is wrong. The expected result is for the install to fail with dependency issues.
Comment 3 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2014-03-27 01:07:49 UTC 
Added publican-API to publican spec file and spec files created by publican.

To ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/publican.git
   836c6f9..7f13e80  devel -> devel
Comment 4 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2014-05-05 06:03:24 UTC 
A fix for this shipped in Publican 4.1.0.
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