Re: apt questions
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alfredo Kengi Kojima wrote:
>
> > Another problem I've noticed is that when a obsoleted package
> > is requested to be installed, it ends up trying to install it,
> > but fails when rpm is invoked.
>
> What defines an obsolete package? All packages from package files not
> tagged NotSource are assumed to be installable - though the acquire bit
> should freak out when it realizes it cannot find a file name.
>
An obsolete package is one that is mentioned in the
Replaces field (or Obsoletes in rpm) of another package.
I think in such case the correct behaviour would be
to not let it be installed.
--
Alfredo
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