[Swan] Why doesn't libreswan obselete openswan

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Fri Jan 9 18:31:49 EET 2015


On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Ted Toth wrote:

> I see in the change log 'Do not obsolete, only conflict, with openswan
> for RHEL6' why is this?

EPEL is not allowd to obsolete core RHEL packages (although I cannot
find that reference on the EPEL packaging policy page)

Note that if you upgrade RHEL6 to RHEL7, it will upgrade you to libreswan.

In Fedora, libreswan does obsolete openswan.

Paul


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