Question:
What do I put in the foo.spec file so that the RPMs will remove the previous RPM before installing?
Description:
I have created a spec file that creates rpm's for a few packages that use the same source and provide the same service, each with a slightly different configuration. E.g. they each provide the same "capability"
Here's an example of the essentials that my .spec file looks like:
%define version 1234
%define name foo
%define release 1
%define pkgname %{name}-%{version}-%{release}
Name: %{name}
Version: %{version}
Release: %{release}
Provides: %{name}
%package one
Summary: Summary for foo-one
Group: %{group}
Obsoletes: %{name} <= %{version}
Provides: %{name} = %{version}
%description one
Blah blah blah
%package two
Summary: Summary for foo-two
Group: %{group}
Obsoletes: %{name} <= %{version}
Provides: %{name} = %{version}
%description two
Blah blah blah
# %prep, %install, %build and %clean are pretty simple
# and omitted here for brevity sake
%files one
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_prefix}/%{pkgname}
%files two
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_prefix}/%{pkgname}
When I install the first one, it installs ok. I then remove the first one, and then install the second one, that works fine too.
I then install the first one, followed immediately by installing the second one, and they both install, one over the other, but, I was expecting that the second one would be removed before installing the second.
Example session:
# rpmbuild foo and copy rpms to yum repo
$ yum install foo-one
...
$ yum list installed|grep foo
foo-one.noarch 1234-1 @myrepo
$ yum install foo-two
...[Should say that it is removing foo-one, but does not]...
$ yum list installed|grep foo
foo-one.noarch 1234-1 @myrepo
foo-two.noarch 1234-1 @myrepo
$ rpm -q --provides foo-one
foo = 1234
foo-one = 1234-1
$ rpm -q --provides foo-two
foo = 1234
foo-two = 1234-1
What do I put in the foo.spec file so that the RPMs will remove the previous RPM before installing?
Thank you,
.dave.
You want to make those packages conflict with each other, so that yum knows that they cannot be installed simultaneously.