Re: Obsoletes

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote:

> I'm trying to wrap my head around what exactly --obsoletes does. Does it merely try to installer newer packages if the
> packages already installed have been obsoleted by a newer one? For example, I have mozilla installed, seamonkey obsoletes
> mozilla. With obsoletes enabled it upgrades all components to get seamonkey installed, without obsoletes it just upgrades
> to the latest available mozilla packages? I'm having issues that is hard to explain, so I'll show the output below. I
> can't install this advisory with the obsoletes option enabled or disabled. Any suggestions?

on most modern systems --obsoletes does nothing. It is the default setting 
these days.

What ver of yum are you using and what distro?


It was only ever an option due to silly buggers deciding to have mutually 
obsoleting pkgs. I think we've successfully beaten those people into 
submission now.

In general, you want obsoletes enabled.

-sv