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

[Sandro Mani]

On 07.03.2013 22:03, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:36:12 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
>
>>>> 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?
> The Yum changelog is not detailed enough to tell, but rpmsack.py considers
> these as "problems". I think normal installing/updating with Yum also
> prints those warnings. As a guess, it could be these are all for "strange"
> Obsoletes/Provides pairs that aren't specific enough, or confusing, or lacking
> versions. Such as:
>
> rpcbind-0.2.0-21.fc19.x86_64 has installed obsoletes portmap <= ('0', '4.0', '65.3'): rpcbind-0.2.0-21.fc19.x86_64
>
>    $ rpm -q --obsoletes rpcbind|grep port
>    portmap <= 4.0-65.3
>    $ rpm -q --provides rpcbind|grep port
>    portmap = 0.2.0-21.fc19
>
> In other words, it obsoletes itself due to the versions that are specified.
>
You are right, i.e. these ones from fedora-logos are clearly ambiguous:
[...]
Obsoletes: redhat-logos
Obsoletes: gnome-logos
Provides: redhat-logos = %{version}-%{release}
Provides: gnome-logos = %{version}-%{release}
[...]