[Yum] yum update (was: ATrpms yum problem)

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:52, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Wait a minute...
> 
> If only one of those are installed -- presumably that's what the mutual
> "obsoletes" are intended to mean -- and "yum update" just updates the
> packages that are currently installed, then what's the problem?  How
> will yum ever see that the other one obsoletes the one that is
> installed?  It's shouldn't be looking there!
> 

that's just it - if 'update' is to work as peter asked then it would
consult the obsoletes lists to see if any packages are in a repository
which obsolete the packages you have installed.

Then it would get them.

-sv