seth vidal wrote: > 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. *Yes* it can. The bugzilla report referred to now on several occasions documents the rpm behavior where: foo1 includes Provides: bar Any install of a real 'bar' package, which now includes an implicit Obsoletes: bar < %%version-%%release will remove foo1. -- Rex
