[Yum-devel] yum 3.2.13 released

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Sat Mar 22 00:30:54 UTC 2008


Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb Jesse Keating:
> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 01:18 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > Does anything provide an unversioned perl-Digest?
> >
> > # yum provides perl-Digest
> > perl.i586 : The Perl interpreter
> > perl.i586 : The Perl interpreter
> > perl.i586 : The Perl interpreter
>
> Bingo.  Unversioned Obsoletes/Provides are terrible.  We've been yelling
> about them in the Fedora Packaging Committee for a while now, and now we
> see why...

Hmm, does that mean, yum will not handle these real world scenarios anymore?
It's a regression after all (even in the light of questionable procedures)..

Pete



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