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

[Florian Festi]

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.
> 
> Other opinions?

It doesn't break any test cases. Treating obsoletes like updates can't be 
that wrong. I'd guess there are even some more places we can apply that 
policy...

Florian