up2date (4.0.1-2) still being obstinate...

[Adrian Likins]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:02:12PM -0400, Elton Woo wrote:
> On October 8, 2003 12:18 pm, M A Young <M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk>> 
> wrote:
> > > WHY won't up2date install the newer package? Shouldn't
> > > 2.0.0-2 be newer than 2.0.0-1?
> >
> > It looks like some files have moved between gnome-python2 and
> > gnome-python2-canvas. Try updating both at the same time.
> 
> Well it looks like I already *have* the newer version of gnome-python2-canvas
> installed already. Also, why is up2date (apparently) doing rpm -ivh,
> instead of *Uvh*? These are after just updating and a reboot:
> # rpm -qa | grep gnome-python
> gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.0.0-1
> gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.0.0-2
> gnome-python2-canvas-2.0.0-1
> gnome-python2-2.0.0-1
> gnome-python2-bonobo-2.0.0-1
> gnome-python2-bonobo-2.0.0-2
> gnome-python2-canvas-2.0.0-2
>
	It doesnt do -i exept for things
that provide something listed in the 
pkgsToInstallNotUpdate config variable
(aka, kernel and kernel-modules by default).
 
> Likewise, up2date refuses to install open-office 1.1.0-1.
> NOTE: it doesn'e even *list* the current version on
> my system (openoffice-i18n-1.0.2-4):
> 
> Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> file /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libadabas2.so from install of 
> openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-1 conflicts with
> file from package openoffice-libs-1.0.2-4
> file /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libcached1.so from install of 
> openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-1 conflicts with
> file from package openoffice-libs-1.0.2-4
> .... and a lot more conflicts that run off the dialog and
> screen...

bogus package, openoffice.org is supposed obsolete
openoffice, but openoffice.org-1.1.0-1 didnt.

Adrian