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
