Re: [PATCH] Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.

From: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2008, 16:04 UTC
Message-ID: <1203350676.4082.0.camel@gaara.boston.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490802180651h2ad61c4cg50bae97000957397@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:51 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> On Feb 17, 2008 2:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > "yum install git" and "yum install git-core" do not give such an
> > error but the latter gives quite a bunch of errors ("yum install
> > git" goes alright).  This is problem #2.
> 
> You probably want "yum upgrade git-core".
> 
> The "problem" is that yum by default doesn't process RPM renames (obsoletes)
> unless you either have obsoletes=1 in your yum.conf, use "yum --obsoletes
> update" or use "yum upgrade".

Ah, that's what it is.  Thanks, I wasn't aware of this issue.

Kristian