Problem with today's "yum update"

[Mike Klinke]

On Saturday 04 September 2004 09:40, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
 
> There first thing you saw with the traceback was a real error in
> yum 2.1.2,  which yum 2.1.3 should fix.

This is what trying to say, but, of course, why say it with only a 
few words when a whole saga can be written .... 

>
> The  conflict error you see is a REAL packaging conflict between
> the old version of xorg you had installed and the new version of
> xorg in rawhide. Its a packaging conflict because the items in
> the xorg packages have been restructured in the new rawhide
> version.
>
> instead of excluding that xorg package, try  yum --obsoletes
> update the new xorg packages uses the rpm concept of "obsoleting"
> to handle the problem of restructuring of package payloads.
>
> -jef

Thanks for the clue on "--obsoletes".  I hadn't read any discussion 
of the different "obsoleting" method for xorg-x11 packages. How did 
you become aware of this?

Regards, Mike Klinke