On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:52, Rick Thomas wrote: > Wait a minute... > > If only one of those are installed -- presumably that's what the mutual > "obsoletes" are intended to mean -- and "yum update" just updates the > packages that are currently installed, then what's the problem? How > will yum ever see that the other one obsoletes the one that is > installed? It's shouldn't be looking there! > that's just it - if 'update' is to work as peter asked then it would consult the obsoletes lists to see if any packages are in a repository which obsolete the packages you have installed. Then it would get them. -sv
