Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (17 mails)

[Michal Svec <msvec@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I wonder what should be the correct handling of Obsoletes, apparently rpm 
and zypp differ on its handling which confuses users.

You can see it on an example of java-1_6_0-sun-plugin.rpm, which obsoletes 
java-1.5.0-plugin and thus java-1_5_0-sun-plugin.rpm. So when you try to 
install both packages, zypper bails on conflicts (*), while rpm allows you 
to install without any problem (might be due to the fact the obsoleted 
name is not a package).

That of course brings quite some confusion, so I wonder whether this is 
a desired behavior or if it could be improved in any way.

Thanks,
Michal

(*) You need zypper from factory to find out, on 10.3 the message is quite 
horrible :)
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