Tracker?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:28 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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?

mainly that an obsoleted package should stay obsoleted.

-sv