Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Am 02.11.10 15:03, schrieb Jörgen Maas: >> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Fabian Arrotin >> <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> wrote: >>> Another one can argue that if those sysadmins didn't update their >>> machine prior to the drbd83 update, some 'bug reports' will appear on >>> bugs.centos.org to say that the latest drbd update broke their cluster . >>> >>> Thoughts about this ? >> I think that fetching and installing the required dependencies is the way to go. >> >> In reality it's not always possible to have up to date systems, >> especially in an enterprise setting. >> And that may, very likely, have nothing to do with the admins themselves. > > I don't like hard "Requires:" like those, but in this case there is a > new drbd83-kmod package in testing which has that requirement. > The solution as pointed out by Martin in the bug report (comment #23) is to use a Conflicts for the buggy package, not a Requires for the newer (fixed) package.