Yum strange behaviour

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 19:47 +1000, David Hunter wrote:
> I went to install Thunderbird from the Fedora repo, and outputed the
> following:
> 
> yum install thunderbird
> rawhide                   100% |=========================| 2.4 kB
> 00:00     
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package thunderbird.i386 0:2.0.0.12-4.fc9 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 

> I might be knitpicking, but be good to get it cleared up. 

for purposes of the transaction it is being added as an 'update'.

Which is important since that is the only state in which obsoletes will
work w/i the transaction. So, anything which is not TRUE INSTALL (ie:
kernel install) will not be added to the ts as an install, only an
update.

-sv