Re: [libvirt PATCH] rpm: Drop obsolete Obsoletes
On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:07:10AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:31:10AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> All platforms we target come with at least libvirt 6.0.0, so
> none of the Obsoletes referring to earlier versions are useful
> at this point.
This rationale assumes that the upgrade is merely an
refresh of the current install. If a user is coming
from an earlier platform version to a modern platform
version, that original platform is likely unsupported,
but we still want the upgrade path to resolve these
obsoletes.
I'm happy to drop this patch as the impact of the cleanup is pretty
small anyway, but generally speaking I don't think that we should aim
to support scenarios such as the one you describe.
If someone is going from, say, Debian 10 to Debian 11, and they want
to move to an even newer version of libvirt than the one shipped with
the OS, this is what will happen:
* they will start with the version in Debian 10 (5.0.0);
* they will upgrade the system to Debian 11, which will bring the
version of libvirt up to 7.0.0, obsoleting packages as necessary
in the process;
* they will build the latest version of libvirt from source and
install it.
Trying to jump from 5.0.0 to the latest upstream version without
going through 7.0.0 will require additional steps and generally be
fiddly as heck, for no obvious advantage.
With that in mind, I think my patch is perfectly good and does
nothing to harm the experience of someone upgrading from a platform
that we no longer target to one that we still do.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization