[Yum] Weird yum obsoletes scenario

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Thu Nov 18 12:59:18 UTC 2004


On 11/18/2004 03:48:44 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 11:36 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > How do I get around this and make it easier for users to update B
> with
> > A without needing to accept other updates from my repo?
> 
> yum install package A

That didn't delete package B (at least not from the rpm database) -  
even though it should have conflicted.

Wonder if that FC3T3 rpm bug, er, feature, that allowed installation of  
packages overwriting files of others is back in rpm for FC3 ...




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