[lug] How to change rpm package names

[David L. Anselmi]

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Michael> I thought I'd done this before, but I've lost the trick.  I thought I
> Michael> recalled an "obsolete" declaration in the spec file, but I can't find
> Michael> anything about that anymore.
> 
> Yeah, you can write "Obsoletes: package"

In Debian they would make a foo-2 dummy package that would depend on 
bar-2 so that bar-2 would be selected for upgrade.  bar-2 would probably 
conflict with foo-1 as well.  And for official packages there are 
various other things that have to happen.

Dave