Package A obsoletes Package B and says so in it's Obsoletes tag of spec file. If you have Package B installed and you run yum update package A yum will report that A isn't installed and can't be updated. If you run yum update package B even though A obsoletes B, it won't see A as an update to B. If you just run yum update THEN it sees A as an update to B. But sometimes you don't want to run yum update - because you don't want yum to look for any other updates from the repo containing A. 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?