[Yum] Why is upgrade deprecated?
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 21 14:54:05 UTC 2003
> You could have two packages obsoleting each-other. This is,
> actually, a real case, as zebra obsoletes gated, and gated obsoletes
> zebra. If you did --with-obsoletes every time and had gated
> installed, it would be replaced with zebra the next time yum runs.
> Then with gated again. Then with zebra. Then with gated. Then with
> zebra. Then with gated... :)
there are worse cases
large obsoleting arcs
foo obsoletes bar
bar obsoletes baz
baz obsoletes foo
:)
it happens
-sv
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