Le ven 01/10/2004 à 08:58, TGS a écrit : > When I update via yum, I am seeing an error message xorg-x11-base-utils > conflicts with xorg-x11-base-fonts. Is the xorg-x11-base-utils package > obsolete or something? I don't know if this help but try : yum --obsolete update

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:33:09AM -0400, TGS wrote: > just what does the --obsolete option do? Looks to me from the man page, that > it removes old packages that are not needed. But in running yum, lots of > packages come up. How does it know what is obsolete? Does it check against > the current package list from the repository that you are updating from? If > so are packages that are installed outside the yum process considered > obsolete? A package mentions Obsoletes: foo when it intends to replace it.