Tracker?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 00:22 -0500, Deji Akingunola wrote:
> On 11/12/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 03:57 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Thomas J. Baker <tjb at ...> writes:
> > > > I thought an update to mikmod was supposed to allow me to install
> > > > tracker? When I try, yum always wants to install mikmod from core, even
> > > > if I have mikmod from updates already installed. I know I could fix this
> > > > with an exclude from core but I thought I read this should be fixed
> > > > without that.
> > >
> > > Synaptic does the right thing.
> >
> > how is installing a package which something you have installed obsoletes
> > the 'right thing'?
> >
> There's a newer mikmod in FC-6 updates that doesn't obsoletes tracker
> anymore. Despite having the newer mikmod, yum is still wanting to grab
> the old mikmod in the core repository when asked to newly install
> tracker.

If the old one is still there then it still obsoletes tracker.

-sv