Rawhide xdvik obsoleted by F8 tetex-xdvi

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Feb 2 23:28:06 UTC 2008


Matthew Saltzman <mjs <at> CLEMSON.EDU> writes:
> I first installed from jnovy's F8 texlive repo, then updated from
> Rawhide.  The texlive repo's xdvi package replaces tetex-xdvi, Rawhide's
> xdvik package replaces jnovy's xdvi, but the tetex-xdvi package in F8
> updates replaces xdvik.

That's an upgrade path bug, and shows how unversioned Obsoletes are evil. 
Pushing a tetex update without the Obsoletes to F8 updates should fix this 
Obsoletes loop. If jnovy doesn't reply to this message anyway, I'd suggest 
filing a bug.

        Kevin Kofler




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