On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
The key to the puzzle for me was that, to install gmime20, it was necessary to remove gmime. I never would have guessed that... seems counter-intuitive to me... and the only way to find that out is to look in the spec file????!! Or is there another way?
I believe if you tell yum to be more verbose it will tell you when one package obsoletes another, but I can't remember off the top of my head if you need "-v" or something with "-d".
What in the spec file told you that?
The Obsoletes line:
Obsoletes: gmime <= %{version}-%{release}
Also... I know to look in the SPEC file by installing just the src, but is there a shorter (another, better) way to look at it?
RPMForge is usually pretty good about having the spec files in their svn:
http://svn.rpmforge.net/viewvc/rpmforge/
However, I didn't see one for gmime20, so I just installed the srpm.
This is all academic to me at this point... just want to learn a bit more about RPMs if you're up for sharing wisdom.
No problem. I've learned it by reading mailing lists and messing around myself.