Fabien Wernli wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:46:21PM +0200, Maarten Litmaath wrote:
>
>>Antun Balaz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>do we need to uninstall lcg-info-dynamic-classic-2.1.1-1 after installing
>>>lcg-info-dynamic-classicSE-1.0.6-1_sl3? The first one
>>>provides /opt/lcg/libexec/lcg-info-dynamic-classic, while the second one
>>>(new) provides /opt/lcg/libexec/lcg-info-dynamic-classicSE.
>>
>>You do not have to uninstall the old rpm: it is simply ignored.
>>Since the rpm name changed, and since the new rpm does not explicitly
>>obsolete the old rpm, APT will not remove the old rpm on an upgrade.
>
>
> IMHO it should!
When an lcg-XYZ meta-package is upgraded, APT does not know which of the
dependencies for the previous version can be removed: some of them will
be system rpms, so they should stay, but APT cannot distinguish those
from rpms that were pulled in from the middleware repository.
The problem here is that lcg-info-dynamic-classicSE really should have
obsoleted lcg-info-dynamic-classic, and I will release a new version
that will fix that "problem".
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