Bug 120255 – up2date not handling renamed package

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Bug 120255 - up2date not handling renamed package

Summary:	up2date not handling renamed package

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	up2date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Adrian Likins
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Reported:	2004-04-07 08:05 EDT by Gene Czarcinski
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-08-25 17:21:06 EDT
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Description Gene Czarcinski 2004-04-07 08:05:01 EDT

Description of problem:

up2date does not currently handle the situation where a package is
renamed.  This may require something stored on the server to indicate
that the renaming has taken place.

Sometimes it is necessary to rename a package or set of packages.  Two
recent examples are:

1.  XFree86-* was replaced by xorg-x11-*  this was not just a package
renaming but the effect is the same.

2. flac use to consist of flac, flac-devel, and flac-xmms.  This was
recently changed to flac, flac-devel, and xmms-flac with xmms-flac
simply being a renamed flac-xmms.  up2date did not pick this up.

Unless a use knows of the name change (xorg-x11 was obvious but
xmms-flac was not), up2date will give no indication of the change and
the user must handle the updating manually.

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2004-04-07 12:39:54 EDT

This has been included in up2date for a while. If 
a package correctly "obsoletes" the old package
this works. 

As far as I know, this works for yum repos as well.
It seemed to work for me with the xorg example
cases above (as well as s/redhat-config/system-config)
when updating fc2 against rawhide.

Comment 2 Gene Czarcinski 2004-04-07 13:08:30 EDT

OK, I just checked the flac.spec file and xmms-flac Obsoletes flac-xmms

Changing to a regular bug report.

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