Problem with KDevelop rpm packaging

[Amilcar do Carmo Lucas]

On Monday 24 November 2008 04:28:00 you wrote:
>  Hi
>
>      I have bumped in to an rpm packaging problem with Kdevelop. I
> downloaded and installed Kdevelop 3.5.3-4.1 rpm from the openSUSE site  on
> RHEL 5.1 without any issues. I then tried to remaster the RHEL 5 DVD with
> this new rpm file. But the installer failed with the python script failing
> on maximum recursion depth reached. The debug messages tagged kdevelop as
> the problematic package. Googling a bit, I learnt that the problem occurs
> when a package obsoletes itself.
>
>  After downloading the source rpm from the same site, I checked the spec
> file and found that the package indeed obsoletes 'kdevelop'. Is this OK?
>
>  From the spec file:
>  Provides:       kdevelop
>  Obsoletes:      kdevelop
>  Obsoletes:      gideon
>  Obsoletes:      kdevelop2
>
>  Is it normal for something to obsolete the very thing it provides?
I'm not sure. Can you point me to the place that explains why it is not OK to 
do that ?

>  I'm yet
> to remove that obsoleting and re-build. Will try that today.
>
>  One more doubt, in the spec file, there are constants:
>  %define branch_source_date 20081101
>  %define kdevelop_version 3.5.3
>  %define kde_version 3.4.0
>  %define qt_version 3.3.2
>
>  Do I need to modify any of these to reflect the versions on my system?
No. You should not change those constants.

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Eng. Amilcar do Carmo Lucas
Institut fuer Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
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