> Le mar 31 mai 2011 19:26:35 CEST, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit: > > >> ... >> Something is obviously wrong, and does not work like it should. I gave >> up and just removed old version and installed new one. > > Well, I think you are right : Obsoletes doesn't work, or at least need > more documentation about how it works. > > I followed suggestions from John and Gordon (thanks !) and tried : > yum clean > yum -v install texlive-20110312-0phn.x86_64.rpm \ > texlive-texmf-20110312-0phn.noarch.rpm \ > texlive-fontsextra-20110312-0phn.noarch.rpm \ > 2>&1 | tee yum.log > > but grep -Ei '(obsolete|tetex)' yum.log shows only some i386 tetex > packages that are excluded by my yum.conf (exclude=*.i?86). > > The following is no more related to Obsoletes : > > I tried to install texlive then uninstall tetex despite they both > use the same directories to store their packages, and it worked (no > need to --force or whatever) ; rpm -V don't find anything to worry > about. > > Because there is a lot of %post scripts in texlive (to configure > what have been installed), I want to run again these scripts after > removing tetex. I can do a yum reinstall, but my texlive is close to > 500 Mb : is there a way to run the scripts without downloading > anything ? You could 'rpm -q --scripts texlive', copy the %post section to a file and run it. Simon