[csw-maintainers] Obsoleting packages

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Thu Mar 10 20:10:48 CET 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> But this is just a different version of a package split, no?  Files
> move between packages all the time.  Is the issue the fact that the
> catalog name is the primary key and that's changing?
>

btw: there are TWO levels of checks that I guess get hit here.

1. filespace conflicts between packages
2. checks against same PKG name but different catalog name (ie someone
changed it "accidentally")

bad enough when one changes, but both at same time is nasty


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