Bug #64169 | RPM "Obsoletes:" lines make it impossible to "yum install" specific old versions | ||
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Submitted: | 30 Jan 2012 18:44 | Modified: | 14 Feb 2013 11:31 |
Reporter: | Davi Arnaut (OCA) | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Won't fix | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Server: Packaging | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
Version: | 5.5 | OS: | Linux |
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any | |
Tags: | CentOS, obsoletes, regression, rpm, yum |
[30 Jan 2012 18:44]
Davi Arnaut
[31 Jan 2012 20:07]
Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the report. Verified as described. But there is still issue for this bug for me: according to http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch-depen... "obsoletes" is proper way for cases when name of packages are changed. Workaround: use RPM
[14 Feb 2013 11:31]
Sveta Smirnova
Internal copy was closed as "Won't fix": [20 Mar 2012 9:52] Daniel Fischer (DAFISCHE) We can't really do anything about it, "obsoletes" is the proper mechanism for what we intend to do, namely, inform RPM that MySQL 5.5 packages supercede/replace the various different 5.0/5.1 products, even those that have different names. If yum doesn't allow installation of older packages just because newer ones are available, that's a shortcoming of yum.