Re: intltool



on 10/5/01 12:01 PM, jacob berkman at jacob ximian com wrote:

> On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 14:24, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> 
>> Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
>>> intltool is supposed to obsolete xml-i18n-tools; that's what the cvs spec
>>> file does. If you decide that instead it should provide xml-i18n-tools that
>>> would be OK too I guess. I don't really understand the distinction in the
>>> RPM world.
>> 
>> You do both, provide and also obsolete. This is so that old packages'
>> requirements for xml-i18n-tools can be filled by an intltool package.
> 
> iirc what doesn't work if one does this is if other packages have
> "Requires: xml-i18n-tools >= foo".
> 
> am i incorrect here?

I assume that the workaround if this is truly a problem would be to create
an intltool RPM that doesn't mention xml-i18n-tools as an obsoletes or a
provides, and an empty xml-i18n-tools 0.11 RPM with not files that requires
intltool >= 0.11.

    -- Darin





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