Find a way to prevent installation of fc13 rpms on f14 and vice vers

[marmarek]

Reported by joanna on 5 Apr 2011 22:03 UTC
I have just upload new gui-vm package compiled on F13 (so it has .fc13 extension) to our vm unstable repo. When I launched the yum update in VM based on F14 the packet was happily picked and installed. As a result the gui stopped working :/

I think we would like to maintain VM packages for both F13 and F14, and this behaviour is very problematic for us...

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/197

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 5 Apr 2011 22:23 UTC
One might think that if we provided both .fc14 and .fc14 versions of the same packet (i.e. with the same version/rel), then yum would intelligently choose the proper packet (if running on F13 would chose .fc13, etc). But this is not how it works -- yum always greedily chooses the hightest numbered packet, so in that case the .fc14 will always be chosen on both F14 as well as on F13.

Any ideas better than having to maintain two different repos?

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 5 Apr 2011 22:23 UTC
One might think that if we provided both .fc14 and .fc14 versions of the same packet (i.e. with the same version/rel), then yum would intelligently choose the proper packet (if running on F13 would chose .fc13, etc). But this is not how it works -- yum always greedily chooses the hightest numbered packet, so in that case the .fc14 will always be chosen on both F14 as well as on F13.

Any ideas better than having to maintain two different repos?

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 6 Apr 2011 07:50 UTC
Ok, I'm pretty determined to split the VM repo into two:

.../current/vm/f13
.../current/vm/f14
.../unstable/vm/f13
.../unstable/vm/f14

Will also require changes to core-commonvm rpm, and to some Makefiles to automatically copy rpms to appropriate repo based on the suffic.

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 6 Apr 2011 07:50 UTC
Ok, I'm pretty determined to split the VM repo into two:

.../current/vm/f13
.../current/vm/f14
.../unstable/vm/f13
.../unstable/vm/f14

Will also require changes to core-commonvm rpm, and to some Makefiles to automatically copy rpms to appropriate repo based on the suffic.

[marmarek]

Modified by joanna on 6 Apr 2011 10:52 UTC

[marmarek]

Modified by joanna on 6 Apr 2011 10:52 UTC

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 6 Apr 2011 12:39 UTC
Done:

• http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=joanna/yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=fede3721ad01232c1732c15d86740aac8b7918c3
• http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=joanna/core.git;a=commitdiff;h=126fca97c39456a20491541cfe77d51289a1e645

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 6 Apr 2011 12:39 UTC
Done:

• http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=joanna/yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=fede3721ad01232c1732c15d86740aac8b7918c3
• http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=joanna/core.git;a=commitdiff;h=126fca97c39456a20491541cfe77d51289a1e645