Re: Strange behavior: yum and jre.i586 and java-1.4.2-gcj-compat

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 16:42 +0100, Dominik Epple wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> 
> on a x86_64 CentOS 5 machine:
> 
> When trying to install the SUN jre RPM using
> 
> # yum localinstall jre-1.6.0_04-fcs.i586.rpm
> 
> yum decides to deinstall java-1.4.2-gcj-compat after the (successful)
> installation of the jre.  Why does yum do that? I just can not
> find out which metadata information in the jre package leads to the
> deinstallation of java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.
> 

The weirdness here has to do with a deeply confusing subject called
'implicit obsoletes' it happens on certain older rpm versions, of which
I believe centos5/rhel5 is running. 

explaining it makes my brain hurt 

-sv