[Yum] yum upgrade to resolve obsoletes loops? (was: yum update)

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:06:02PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

The problem is that those two packages are breaking integrity of
rpm repos, be it yum, apt or rpm -Fhv *.rpm. It is too bad this
slipped through in older RH.

What is yum's behaviour ("upgrade") in this case? Would it toggle the
packages at each yum upgrade? Can such obsolete-loops be detected and
the installed package preferred?

I know apt cannot :(
But yum could be smarter! :)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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