On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:29:37 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Thanks. I'm pretty sure the "bug" isn't as bad as I originally described. > > Last I knew, however, was that yum did prefer an older "real" pkg over a > > newer "Provides:" one. > > Here is the scoop. > > you have 'foo-0:2.4.6-1' as a package. You then create 'foobar-0:1.2-3' > which has Obsoletes: foo; Provides: foo. 'foo' is left in the > repository. > > 'yum install foo' will find the package 'foo' and install that instead > of 'foobar'. This is by design according to Seth when I last talked to > him about it. Because you are asking for the package name not a > provides. The package itself would have to be removed from the > repository. > > Seth, is this still true? I don't want to speak for you. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/190116 -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
