What's going on with `yum install tracker'

[Leo]

* Jeff Spaleta (2006-12-19 20:09 -0900) said:
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 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

My first response is my system is infected with virus.

> 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

Or set exclude=mikmod in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo.

Thank you for the wonderful explanation.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)