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

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 21:08 +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.

 It's a bug, obsoletes only work on package names and I'd made it
include provides ... my, bad (My one bad excuse is that this is only
like the 666th time someone has done this :).
 It'll be fixed in -74 or so, just ignore it until then.