What's going on with `yum install tracker'

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 20:09 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I suspect there is a bug? Could you look at the output of 'yum install
> > track'?
> 
> 
> The mikmod that shipped with FC6 had an explicit obsolete statement for tracker.
> rpm  -q --obsoletes -p mikmod-3.1.6-38.1.i386.rpm
> tracker
> 
> The mikmod released as an update no longer carries the obsolete
> rpm -q --changelog mikmod
> * Thu Nov 09 2006 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 3.1.6-39
> - removed obsoletes on tracker (#214112)
> 
> The workaround is to use:
> yum --disablerepo=core install tracker
> 
> or set obsoletes=0  in the yum.conf
> 
> Technically... the bug has been fixed, the latest mikmod packages no
> longer obsolete 'tracker'.  But because of the way obsoletes work it
> still causes problems. There is no automatic way to override a
> specific obsolete, you have to disable the calculation of obseletes in
> some fashion.
> 

The above is fixed in yum 3.0.2 or above. 3.0.2 isn't out yet, but it
will be.

-sv