[Rpm-maint] Should installed obsoletes be seen as conflicts

[Peter Bowen]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:04 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
> While discussing the yum resolver I realized that I was erroneously 
> believing that rpm would treat installed obsoletes like conflicts.
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> foo obsoletes: bar
> foo is installed
> rpm -ivh bar.rpm
> 
> Right now rpm installs bar without any error. According to Panu apt-rpm 
> issues an error here. Is it possible that rpm did issue an error in some 
> earlier versions? And what is the right(tm) behavior?

Nope, this has been like this for ages.  If you want it to conflict, add
a conflict: bar to foo.  

Also, it should be noted that you can do:

foo 2.0 is installed
rpm -ivh foo-1.0.rpm

Yes, you have to pass --oldpackage, but it works otherwise.  Maybe
--oldpackage should be required if you try to install a package that is
obsoleted?

Thanks.
Peter