Re: How to get apt to ignore "obsoletes" rpms...

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> I've installed dhcpcd as a workaround to a problem with dhclient and
> ethernet aliases. Now, whenever I try to apt-get upgrade, it complains
> that dhcpcd is obsoleted by dhclient but is still isntalled. Is there
> any way to configure apt to ignore this?

don't know about apt - but yum doesn't bother with obsoletes for
already installed packages..

Satish