On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
I'm trying to wrap my head around what exactly --obsoletes does. Does it merely try to installer newer packages if the
packages already installed have been obsoleted by a newer one? For example, I have mozilla installed, seamonkey obsoletes
mozilla. With obsoletes enabled it upgrades all components to get seamonkey installed, without obsoletes it just upgrades
to the latest available mozilla packages? I'm having issues that is hard to explain, so I'll show the output below. I
can't install this advisory with the obsoletes option enabled or disabled. Any suggestions?
on most modern systems --obsoletes does nothing. It is the default setting
these days.
What ver of yum are you using and what distro?
It was only ever an option due to silly buggers deciding to have mutually
obsoleting pkgs. I think we've successfully beaten those people into
submission now.
In general, you want obsoletes enabled.
-sv
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