Re: xorg-x11-base-utils conflicts with xorg-x11-base-fonts

[TGS <spam tachegroup com>]

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which means that bb is obsolete and will be replaced/updated by aaaaa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 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 How does it know what is obsolete?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.