Re: Re: yum says different package installed than requested, provides incomplete.

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 23:13 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/Packages/yum-skip-broken-1.1.13-2.fc9.noarch.rpm
> and updated: 24/03/08  	14:17:00
> although it doesn't seem to be appearing in koji.

yah - we haven't clipped the package out of yum-utils b/c of backward
compat for versions of yum which do not include the functionality in yum
itself.


>  >> How about the provides, which says only yum-skip-broken provides that
>  >> capability ?
> It seems that at the moment there should be two packages providing 
> yum-skip-broken: yum and yum-skip-broken, but only yum-skip-broken is 
> shown. Is that a bug or intentional ?
> 
> And in fact yum is echoed in the response as the provider.

yes. We need to output a better message when yum switches the package it
is looking at internally due to obsoletes.

-sv