Tracker?

[Paul Howarth]

seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

Was there a reason given for this? What breaks if it's the other way around?

Paul.