xorg-x11-base-utils conflicts with xorg-x11-base-fonts
TGS
spam at tachegroup.com
Fri Oct 1 12:56:45 UTC 2004
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which means that bb is obsolete and will be replaced/updated by aaaaa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 at WPI.EDU wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:33:09AM -0400, TGS wrote:
>> 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 How does it know what is obsolete?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.
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