[CentOS] Seamonkey

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Mon Aug 7 23:19:41 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 21:46 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > On 8/6/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Seamonkey is the new mozilla, which both obsoletes the old mozilla
> >> packages, and provides mozilla = 37:1.8.
> > 
> > Yes, I understand that part.  I was more expressing surprise that
> > there isn't some OTHER mechanism from the upstream by which to force
> > mozilla to be replaced with seamonkey.
> 
> yum --obsoletes update
> 
> that should do-the-right-thing. The issue is that yum will only list for
> update, a newer E-V-R for a package with the same name only. but using
> the --obsoletes flag, gets yum checking for packages that might obsolete
> something already installed, and considering them for updates as well.
> 
> 
> 
Also working is what I posted on the Seamonkey CESA in the first place:


yum upgrade


(Karanbir, I know it is depreciated ... but it still works in this
version :)

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