[CentOS] i386 and x86_64 depsolver issue with Seamonkey
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Tue Aug 8 13:07:41 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 07:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> CentOS uses the yum dependency solver for doing updates and not the RHN
> (normal) up2date mechanism. That is functionality built into up2date.
>
> Due to this difference, there is a problem with the Seamonkey upgrade to
> replace Mozilla using up2date on CentOS-4, because it does not see
> Seamonkey as obsoleting Mozilla. (This is a problem with the yum
> depsolver that is included in up2date).
>
> Due to this problem, to upgrade from Mozilla to Seamonkey use this
> command from the command line instead of up2date:
>
> yum upgrade seamonkey
This should have been:
yum upgrade
>
> ------------------
> Yum is the official upgrade tool for CentOS. If you are currently using
> up2date, you should consider switching to yum as this is not the first
> issue that up2date has had when doing "obsoletes" type updates.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
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