yum >= 3.4.3-70: yum check reports "X has installed obsoletes Y"

[Sandro Mani]

On 07.03.2013 21:24, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:08:08 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Starting approx one week ago, yum check all returns messages such as
>>
>> fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch has installed obsoletes redhat-logos:
>> fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch
>> fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch has installed obsoletes gnome-logos:
>> fedora-logos-19.0.0-1.fc19.noarch
>> fedora-release-19-0.2.noarch has installed obsoletes redhat-release:
>> fedora-release-19-0.2.noarch
>> [ etc, 29 in total ]
>>
>> It started with yum-3.4.3-70.fc19. Is this a bug in yum >= 3.4.3-70, or
>> is this a problem with my rpm db? Both yum erase and rpm -e <reported
>> installed obsolete package> tell me that the indicated package is not
>> installed.
> You misread the output. It tells which "Obsoletes" tags are found in
> packages. For example:
>
>    $ rpm --query --obsoletes fedora-logos
>    redhat-logos
>    gnome-logos
>
> It doesn't ask you to uninstall anything. ;)
>
Uhm, ok, but why is this something yum suddenly wants to report?