On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, ken <gebser at 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. -- William Hooper