[Yum] Obsoletes package gets updated?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 15:11 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> Shoot, sorry for the confusion.  We are doing "yum -y update"... and it
> is still getting obsoletes.  Our yum.conf does have the default config
> of obsoletes=1.
> 
> My question though is this: is our "meta" package getting grabbed just
> because of its obsoletes?  It isn't considered an update to any other
> package for any other reason.  Perhaps I'm wrong, but I didn't think
> that obsoletes alone would be considered reason enough to grab something
> as an "update".
> 

It's how a lot of people determine an 'update' and the reason why
obsoletes is a configurable option.

Anaconda treats obsoletes as updates, so does up2date.

it's a long-running argument, ultimately.

-sv