[Yum-devel] Even fancier yum 3.2.11 drain bammage

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:06 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> # yum update

> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  kernel-pae              i586       2.6.24.1-35.1    kernel-head        22 M
>      replacing  kernel-bigsmp.i586 2.6.18.8-0.5
> 
>  kernel-source           i586       2.6.24.1-35.1    kernel-head        50 M
>  kernel-syms             i586       2.6.24.1-35.1    kernel-head       1.3 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  kernel-bigsmp           i586       2.6.18.2-34      base               18 M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      4 Package(s)         
> Update       0 Package(s)         
> Remove       0 Package(s)         
> 
> Total download size: 92 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: 
> 
> It's not, off cause.
> 
> Even if kernel-pae does the usual provides/obsoletes kernel-bigsmp, 
> shouldn't that be ignored in the installonlypkgs case? It doesn't make much 
> sense in my book. Needless to say, the replacement is arbitrary:
> 

it looks like kernel-pae is obsoleting kernel-bigsmp but you still have
a dangling requirement that kernel-pae isn't providing. So yum is,
correctly, pulling in the only thing available for it.

This looks like kernel-pae is not adequately providing what it is
obsoleting.

Or am I misreading this output?

-sv