[packman] How to upgrade XBMC to Kodi

[Sagi Ben-Akiva]

Thanks !

And kodi code already taking care of migrating existing configuration files.

Sagi.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Herbert Graeber <herbert at links2linux.de>
wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 21:42:01 schrieb Sagi Ben-Akiva:
> > XBMC Release Candidate for ersion 14.0 Helix was released couple of days
> > ago.
> > This is the first version which introduce XBMC project new name, Kodi.
> >
> > I started to work on building kodi in packman build service, but the name
> > change introduce an issue that I don't know how to solve and would like
> to
> > get your opinion/suggestion.
> >
> > I guess that because of the name change zypper or any other package
> manager
> > will not mark kodi as an upgrade for xbmc which might cause installation
> > issues because many files in that package kept their names.
> > If one will decide to force this installation, what will be the output
> of :
> > # rpm -qf /path/to/kodi/filename
> >
> > Is there a way to mark in the spec that this package upgrades a different
> > package ?
>
> You need the followinging tags in kodi.spec:
>
> Obsoletes: xmbc < 14.0
> Provides:  xmbc = 14.0
>
> The first one will remove the old xmbc package. The second one will pull
> the
> kodi rpm as a replacment of the old xbmc package on update.
>
> Here an useful link: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_dependencies
>
>
> > Maybe to add a pre-install script which uninstall xbmc if exist ?
>
> No. That's not neccessary. But maybe you will need some magic for migrating
> existing configuration files. But that cannot been done by the rpm, but
> must
> been done for each user when running kodi first time.
>
> Herbert
>
>
>
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