cannot update to latest, how should I proceed to apply updates

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Andrew Farris wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > based on what i've read, all that's
> > necessary is for one of the new packages to officially obsolete
> > libsmbios-bin, correct?
>
> Looks like that is what the bz fix has, and it sounds correct to me.
> libsmbios obsoletes libsmbios-bin

argh.  i just checked the development repos for both i386 and x86_64,
and they both now have a newer version (".2") of libsmbios, which
allegedly handles obsoletes correctly.  so i remove the cached earlier
libsmbios package (".1") from my x86_64 system, run "yum update", and
yum is *still* downloading and trying to install the earlier (wrong)
version.

grrrrrrr ......

rday
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