[Rpm-maint] [Suse-patch] Revert provides as obsoletes behavior

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue May 22 13:16:30 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 11:53 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:

> Hello Panu,
> 
> I don't think https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130352#c11
> is actually happening in rpm and the overall bug report looks pretty unclear
> to me.
> 

Florian,
 It accounts for some very interesting behavior that happens for
kernel-modules updates for openafs. It also accounts for some 'yum
silently removes foo' bugs I've run into. The obsoletes-on-provides is
pretty magical and causes a lot of unexpected behavior in my experience.

-sv





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