[Mageia-dev] RFC: Add versioned require in rpm on rpm-helper

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 16 April 2012 13:15, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> So just to make sure I'm following this right:
>  1. Versioned require will fix urpmi-based upgrades.
>
>  2. Installer (fresh-install) will be fine because basesystem-minimal
> will pull in rpm which will pull in rpm-helper.  WE can be confident
> this will happen early.

No you cannot on upgrade.
Package ordering will depends on versioned requires.

>  3. Installer (upgrade) will still be broken as it does not treat the
> rpm package inside the chroot as any kind of priority update that is
> installed early in the upgrade process.

installer upgrade will be OK if systemd unit packages require a recent
enough rpm-helper