From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:51:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.
Message-ID: <76718490802180651h2ad61c4cg50bae97000957397@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vskzs2exj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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".

j.