[Yum] Obsoletes package gets updated?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jun 20 18:00:14 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:12 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> I have a package called "meta" in a package group in my repo.  All it
> contains is an obsolete of package a".
> 
> I have package "a" on my machine already.  I didn't install the group
> that includes "meta", nor do I have an old version of the "meta" package
> installed.
> 
> However, when I do a "yum upgrade" against said repo, I still get the
> meta package included in the yum update set.  Why?  Why does yum regard
> an obsolete to "a" to be an "upgrade"?  Surely it shouldn't.

read up on what 'yum upgrade' does.

       upgrade
              Is the same as the update command with the --obsoletes
flag set.
              See update for more details.


-sv





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