On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:32 +0100, M A Young wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, seth vidal wrote: > > ... > > > Cleanup : xml-commons-apis ####################### [ 9/17] > > > Removing : jre ####################### [10/17] > > > > this is an obsoletes-based removal - which means rpm is doing it. > > $ rpm -qp jdk-1_5_0_02-linux-i586.rpm --provides > jre = 1.5.0_02 > j2sdk = 1.5.0_02 > j2re = 1.5.0_02 > jaxp_parser_impl > xml-commons-apis > jdk = 2000:1.5.0_02-fcs > > So probably yum or rpm is deciding that the xml-commons-apis package > replaces Sun's jdk. it can't do that w/o an obsolete. -sv