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
