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Versioned require will fix urpmi-based upgrades. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i>  2. Installer (fresh-install) will be fine because basesystem-minimal +</I>>>><i> will pull in rpm which will pull in rpm-helper.  WE can be confident +</I>>>><i> this will happen early. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> No you cannot on upgrade. +</I>>><i> Package ordering will depends on versioned requires. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't understand... This is a fresh install, where did upgrade come +</I>><i> into it? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Just to clarify, the *fresh install* case is fine, it's the *upgrade* +</I>><i> case (which I specifically outlined separately below to avoid confusion +</I>><i> - although that clearly failed) that has the problem. Correct? +</I>><i> +</I>>>><i>  3. Installer (upgrade) will still be broken as it does not treat the +</I>>>><i> rpm package inside the chroot as any kind of priority update that is +</I>>>><i> installed early in the upgrade process. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> installer upgrade will be OK if systemd unit packages require a recent +</I>>><i> enough rpm-helper +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I wasn't really looking for solutions, just trying to understand the +</I>><i> problem clearly. Proposed solutions often cloud the thinking about the +</I>><i> problem itself. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So putting "Requires(pre): systemd-units" in all packages providing a +</I>><i> systemd unit seems wrong (it doesn't require systemd-units at all, so +</I>><i> this is a fake requires). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Putting "Requires(pre): rpm-helper >= $ver" also seems somewhat overkill +</I>><i> and hard to maintain (e.g. what if some other new thing goes into +</I>><i> rpm-helper? We have to rebuild all packages that use any of the macros +</I>><i> inside it to get the appropriate versioned require which seems awkward +</I>><i> and hard to maintain[1]). +</I> +If a package requires a new script, it means there is a call to this +script, so I would expect that it was built after this new script was +added. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="014341.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: Add versioned require in rpm on rpm-helper +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="014346.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: Add versioned require in rpm on rpm-helper +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#14344">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#14344">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#14344">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#14344">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |