Tracker?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 09:58 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:44:16 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > If the old one is still there then it still obsoletes tracker.
> 
> So if I have packages A and B, where B obsoletes A. Now there is a rpm-newer
> version of B (B-new) in another repo (updates) which no longer obsoletes A.
> 
> So as long as B exists anywhere I can not install A using yum, because
> yum still considers the obsolete from B, even though it is no longer relevant
> in any way?

When I was working on the obs vs updates code I kept asking about this.
The answer I repeatedly got was that obsoletes trumps updates no matter
what.

-sv