just what does the --obsolete option do? Looks to me from the man page, that it removes old packages that are not needed. But in running yum, lots of packages come up. How does it know what is obsolete? Does it check against the current package list from the repository that you are updating from? If so are packages that are installed outside the yum process considered obsolete?

on 10/01/2004 3:12 AM, Matias Feliciano at feliciano.matias@free.fr wrote:

Le ven 01/10/2004 à 08:58, TGS a écrit :

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When I update via yum, I am seeing an error message xorg-x11-base-utils conflicts with xorg-x11-base-fonts. Is the xorg-x11-base-utils package obsolete or something?

I don't know if this help but try : yum --obsolete update

Okay I see the output now, took a few moments.

yum --obsolete update

yields something like

[u] aaaaa 1.0 [o] bb 1.1 - aaaaa 1.0

which means that bb is obsolete and will be replaced/updated by aaaaa

on 10/01/2004 8:51 AM, Charles R. Anderson at cra@WPI.EDU wrote:

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:33:09AM -0400, TGS wrote:

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just what does the --obsolete option do? Looks to me from the man page, that it removes old packages that are not needed. But in running yum, lots of packages come up. How does it know what is obsolete? Does it check against the current package list from the repository that you are updating from? If so are packages that are installed outside the yum process considered obsolete?

A package mentions Obsoletes: foo when it intends to replace it.