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Re: The "Monty Program AB" vendor check (rpm)

 

tisdagen den 28 januari 2014 11.30.01 skrev  Colin Charles:
> On 25 Jan 2014, at 16:26, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, Oden!
> > 
> > On Dec 03, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> >> I got assigned to look at the rpm packaging and fixed some stuff
> >> there, but got stuck at the "Monty Program AB" vendor check in
> >> support-files/rpm/server- prein.sh when I wanted to replace the fedora
> >> packages with in this case mariadb galera packages.
> >> 
> >> Is this check absolutely nessesary?
> > 
> > Nobody replied. Apparently nobody knows or cares :)
> 
> I think it was added back in the day when we had to "upgrade" from the
> ourdelta repositories
> >> This prevents you from an easy switch from the fedora mariadb packages
> >> to the ones provided by mariadb using yum and a yum repository as
> >> provided at http://yum.mariadb.org/.
> >> 
> >> Basically this check prevents me from doing any serious work with the
> >> rpm packages because you manually have to, by force deinstall any
> >> conflicting packages and then install the packages provided by us.
> > 
> > Okay, let's remove it.
> 
> I'm pretty sure they can be removed now


That would be awesome.


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