No kidding :-( In my perfect world, that admittedly exists only conceptually, I'd not have packages get updated *only* because of obsoletes... but if obsoletes are present in a package that was chosen for updating for *other* reasons, then so be it... I'd apply them. Is that not workable? And when can I get a cli option for that in yum 2.0, 2.2, and 2.3/2.4 ? ;-) Joshua On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:15:33PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > The gist of the problem is that if you allow obsoletes to update then > you can be introducing new software when someone doesn't expect it. > > If you don't allow obsoletes as an update you can make it next to > impossible for certain updates to occur. Especially if a package HAS to > go away for security reasons. > > such a good time. No, really. I mean it. > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Joshua Jensen joshua@xxxxxxxx "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"
