rpm -Uvh does not consider obsoletes

[Jeff Johnson]

tracker

[Nicolas (nicolas-redhat-bugs)]

rpm forgets to look at obsoletes when installing/updating a package.

As a result it will happily install an obsoleted package on a system that already includes the package that obsoletes it

This should at minima be treated as a conflict. If a packager declared his package obsoletes some other package, he does not expect them to be installed on the same system. That will usually result in breakage.

rpm-4.6.0-5.fc11.x86_64

[Nicolas (nicolas-redhat-bugs)]

(see also yum bug #486566)

[Jeff (jeff-redhat-bugs)]

Obsoletes are not saved persistently, and are applied only as an event in the current
transaction. RPM has always behaved this way ...

[Bug (bug-redhat-bugs)]

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

[Panu (panu-redhat-bugs)]

This is now implemented upstream. No plans to backport this to existing releases though, as its quite a significant behavior change, Fedora will get it through next major rpm update (possibly in F14 timeframe)

[Nicolas (nicolas-redhat-bugs)]

Thanks for the fixing!

[Panu (panu-redhat-bugs)]

Fixed in rawhide as of rpm-4.9.0-0.beta1.1.fc15.