Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 609578
Version the conflicts against samba-X
Last modified: 2011-01-13 17:48:09 EST
Description of problem: Please make the conflicts against the samba-X package versioned; e.g. write | Conflicts: samba < 3.3 instead of plain | Conflicts: samba I understand that 'samba3x' can not provide 'samba' due to unclear/unwanted packages upgrade effects. But the change above makes it possible to provide local adapter packages which satisfy 'samba' requirements by providing 'samba = 3.3' and requiring 'samba3x'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: samba3x-3.3.8-0.52.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
Sorry, it is not quite clear to me what you want to achieve. Do you just want to be able to satisfy the requires: samba while using samba3x ?
yes because there are probably reasons that samba3x does not have samba provides I want to solve this with a local helper package which has | Requires: samba3x > 3.3 | Provides: samba = 3.3 But this does not work due to the unversioned 'Conflicts: samba' in samba3x. (ditto for -client)
Can we mark this as a dup of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582756 then? We plan to try to resolve it for 5.6.
The "Provides: samba" suggested by 582756 are an issue which should not be done in 5.5. But I would like to use samba3x in 5.5 and the versioned conflicts do not have sideeffects so they can be applied in 5.5.
Enrico, Please note that although Red Hat welcomes bug reports and feedback in our public bugzilla database, we request that you contact technical support for help/assistance on obtaining officially supported packages. Thanks Red Hat GSS Supervisor
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Previously, the samba3x package considered any samba package a conflicting package. With this update, samba3x checks for possible non-conflicting versions of the samba package.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0054.html