Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olaf Hering writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target"):
> On Mon, Mar 03, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I'm no expert on rpm.  Is there a way to get the desirable effect
> > (satisfying dependencies) without the undesirable one (unexpectedly
> > deinstalling the sysadmin's other xen packages) ?
> 
> rpm does that itself because the new xen.rpm has a provides
> "libxyz.so.0() (64bit)" and other packages linking against that SONAME
> have a requires "libxyz.so.0() (64bit)" so rpm and package managers
> above rpm can find the relationship between the two packages.
>
> I dont see an undesirable effect because the selfcompiled xen.rpm
> contains everything required to run a dom0.

I think it's undesirable if installing this rpmball causes (by
default) the deinstallation or replacement of distro-provided Xen
packages.

Ian.

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