[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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