seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:32 +0100, M A Young wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, seth vidal wrote:
>
>>...
>>
>>> Cleanup : xml-commons-apis ####################### [ 9/17]
>>> Removing : jre ####################### [10/17]
>>
>>this is an obsoletes-based removal - which means rpm is doing it.
>
>$ rpm -qp jdk-1_5_0_02-linux-i586.rpm --provides
>jre = 1.5.0_02
>j2sdk = 1.5.0_02
>j2re = 1.5.0_02
>jaxp_parser_impl
>xml-commons-apis
>jdk = 2000:1.5.0_02-fcs
>
>So probably yum or rpm is deciding that the xml-commons-apis package
>replaces Sun's jdk.
it can't do that w/o an obsolete.
*Yes* it can. The bugzilla report referred to now on several occasions
documents the rpm behavior where:
foo1 includes
Provides: bar
Any install of a real 'bar' package, which now includes an implicit
Obsoletes: bar < %%version-%%release
will remove foo1.
-- Rex