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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq