On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 00:14 -0700, Erik Espinoza wrote: > I don't think that yum can pull updates for different names. I know > yum needed to be manually told to install openoffice.org on many of > the rhel rebuilds because yum couldn't just handle it on it's own. > b/c it isn't an upgrade, it was an update. ie: openoffice.org obsoletes openoffice. the reason why obsoletes are not automatically considered is to deal with circular obsoletes that exist in fedora/rhl ie: foo obsoletes bar bar obsoletes foo if yum always considered and ran obsoletes on a normal 'update' call then you'd have those two packaes oscillate back and forth with every run. That'd be a waste of time and potentially damaging, wouldn't it? it gets worse - larger circular obsoletes: foo obsoletes bar baz obsoletes foo bar obsoletes baz so then every 3 calls the packages change hands entirely. this is the reason why in the next major version of yum the upgrade call is deprecated for --obsoletes=1 so if you want to run update with obsoletes for one run just enabled --obsoletes and then you're ready to go. -sv
