[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Obsoletes are similar to updates for provides changing

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 19:33:07 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:47 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> With today's rawhide, redhat-artwork goes away due to an obsolete.  One
> of its provides (which another package needs) has thus moved.  Given
> that the mode of the obsoleted package is None, we don't then ever look
> for other things to provide the now-gone provides.  Treating the
> obsoleted case like an update seems to fix the problem and I haven't
> managed to hit any other problems with it in testing.

This also fixes the weirdness going from F7 -> rawhide where dhcdbd is
going away

Jeremy




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