On Wed, 23 May 2012 21:33:35 -0400 "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On an EL6 machine, I've built a package "foo-bar" and it's intended to > replace any already installed "bar" package on any machines it's > installed on so I put an: > > Obsoletes: bar > > in foo-bar.spec and it seems to have been added to the resulting > package: > > # rpm -q --obsoletes -p foo-bar-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm > bar > # rpm -ivh foo-bar-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### > [100%] 1:foo-bar ########################################### > [100%] # rpm -q bar > bar-1.0-1.el6.noarch > > So why didn't the "Obsoletes: bar" remove "bar"? > > Cheers, > b. > b/c you did an rpm -ivh not -Uvh. install doesn't process the obsoletes. also this is the yum mailing list and this is a reason why yum was written. -sv
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