[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Use showdups for obsoletes, so "list obsoletes" is sane for RHEL like repos

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, James Antill wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:03 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> what's the case this is fixing? what does the output of list obsoletes
>> before and after?
>
> On a GA RHEL-5 box (after updating sos), you get:
>
> Before:
>
> Obsoleting Packages
> dhcpv6-client.i386                 1.0.10-4.el5             rhel-i386-server-5
>    dhcpv6_client.i386             0.10-33.el5              installed
> dhcpv6-client.i386                 1.0.10-4.el5_2.2         rhel-i386-server-5
>    dhcpv6_client.i386             0.10-33.el5              installed
> dhcpv6-client.i386                 1.0.10-4.el5_2.3         rhel-i386-server-5
>    dhcpv6_client.i386             0.10-33.el5              installed
> dhcpv6-client.i386                 1.0.10-16.el5            rhel-i386-server-5
>    dhcpv6_client.i386             0.10-33.el5              installed
> dhcpv6-client.i386                 1.0.10-17.el5            rhel-i386-server-5
>    dhcpv6_client.i386             0.10-33.el5              installed
> libhugetlbfs.i386                  1.2-5.el5                rhel-i386-server-5
>    libhugetlbfs-lib.i386          1.0.1-1.el5              installed
> libhugetlbfs.i386                  1.3-3.el5                rhel-i386-server-5
>    libhugetlbfs-lib.i386          1.0.1-1.el5              installed
>
> After:
>
> Obsoleting Packages
> dhcpv6-client.i386                   1.0.10-17.el5          rhel-i386-server-5
>    dhcpv6_client.i386               0.10-33.el5            installed
> libhugetlbfs.i386                    1.3-3.el5              rhel-i386-server-5
>    libhugetlbfs-lib.i386            1.0.1-1.el5            installed
>
> Dito. on the new packages with "info obsoletes", but with more lines.
>

okay - ACK.

maybe in the future include info like the above in the comment?

-sv