Bug 3236

Summary:	new package in updates should replace and not keep the older package
Product:	Infrastructure	Reporter:	Manuel Hiebel <manuel.mageia>
Component:	BuildSystem	Assignee:	Sysadmin Team <sysadmin-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mailinglistsduraph, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-31 19:57:00 CET

Description of problem:
When a package is moved from updates_testing to updates, and an older was alredy in here, we have two .

So we should just keep the latest one.

Why ?

1.It make rpmdrake easier to read
and example with vlc (without tainted + 32bits )

1.1.12-3.1.mga1 // core-updates (Mga, 1, x86_64)
1.1.11-0.1.mga1 // core-updates (Mga, 1, x86_64)

So for x86_64 user it's about 6 rpm just for vlc. (without release)

2. It can also decrease the data.
example with firefox:

0:7.0.1-0.1.mga1 
0:6.0.2-0.1.mga1 
0:6.0.1-1.2.mga1
0:6.0-1.1.mga1

each srpm is about 65Mo.

Comment 1 Raphaël Vinet 2011-11-01 06:43:01 CET

Hi,

+1 for this one
Other example un Core Updates Debug
- kdelibs4-debug 4.6.5-1.1.mga1
- kdelibs4-debug 4.6.5-1.2.mga1
- kdelibs4-debug 4.6.5-1.3.mga1

and if you don't take attention (a long list of updates by example) you select several updates for one package and you have a lovely message like "kdelibs4-debug-4.6.5-1.3.mga1.i586 (en raison de conflit avec kdelibs4-debug-4.6.5-1.2.mga1.i586)". I had this one (very) recently and I first thought a dependancy problem and occupied to open a ticket on bugzilla ... ;-)

A+
Raph

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Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-21 21:35:55 CET

ping for repoctl :p

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-01 16:42:45 CET

So I have check in mdv, only kernel ( and the relative fglrx-kernel-*,  etc) are keep.

So what about have the same ?

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-09 17:03:43 CET

dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2382 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE