On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 15:45 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] > I want the rpm install of java-1.6.0-sun to remove the > java-1.6.0-openjdk package. I thought the SPEC option Obsoletes would > get that. In my sun jdk spec file, the top 100 lines of which I paste > in below. I've done something wrong, because when I install those with > the usual "rpm -ivh java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.18-2.0.Centos54kups.i586.rpm" > then the openjdk packages are not removed. "rpm --install" is rarely the right thing to do, I don't know of any higher level package manager which likes to have two versions of the same package. And, as you've found out, --install doesn't do obsoletes processing ... which is often unwanted behaviour. [...] > Obsoletes: javaws-menu > Obsoletes: java-1.6.0-openjdk Also, don't do unversioned obsoletes ... it always ends in pain. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
