update failures on RHEL 3

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 17/01/2008, Yard, John <jyard at ais.ucla.edu> wrote:
> doing an update -u I
> got update errors on a number
> of packages , precisely those
> that have been superceded by others:
>
> how do I resolve this ?
>
> Thank You,
>
> JYard
> UCLA
>
> Name-Version-Release        obsoleted by      Name-Version-Release
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------
> gaim-1.0.1-1.RHEL3                      pidgin-1.5.1-1.el3
>
> mozilla-1.4.3-3.0.4                     seamonkey-1.0.9-0.7.el3
>
> mozilla-chat-1.4.3-3.0.4                seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.7.el3
>
> mozilla-mail-1.4.3-3.0.4                seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.7.el3
>
> mozilla-nspr-1.4.3-3.0.4                seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.7.el3
>
> mozilla-nss-1.4.3-3.0.4                 seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.7.el3
>
> ethereal-0.10.5-0.30E.2                 wireshark-0.99.5-EL3.1
(...)

Why not simply remove the obsoleted packages and install the new ones?

Kind regards,

Herta


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Herta Van den Eynde

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