Upgrade of unmaintained packages

Aurelien Bompard gauret at free.fr
Fri Jan 30 16:19:36 UTC 2004


>  up2date and yum never remove packages unless they are
> explicitly obsoleted by something else, AFAIK.

Then a working-but-ugly solution would be to have some kind of meta-package
which would just obsolete the problematic packages... Is there a more
elegant way of dealing with such a situation ?


Aurélien
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