Bug 421391

Description of problem:
It is known that rsyslog will be the preferred logging tool in f8
http://lwn.net/Articles/242137/  When I performed a "yum update"
I receive "Error: rsyslog conflicts with syslog-ng"  The yum list rsyslog
syslog-ng shows that the syslog-ng package was installed somehow.  I am guessing
 that
1.) some package has a dependency on syslog-ng because I don't recall asking for it.
2.) Perhaps using the alternatives configuration tool would help make these two
packages co-exist.  Preference could co to the rsyslog package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum list rsyslog syslog-ng
Installed Packages
rsyslog.i386                             1.19.10-1.fc8          installed       
syslog-ng.i386                           2.0.5-1.fc8            installed       
Available Packages
rsyslog.i386                             1.19.11-1.fc8          updates  


How reproducible:
There have been several reports http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=174349
http://www.nabble.com/yum-dependencies:--rsyslog-versus-syslog-ng-td14262351.html


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Perform an update of the system around 12/10/2007
2. yum update
3.
  
Actual results:
No update performed.  Receive 
Error: rsyslog conflicts with syslog-ng

Expected results:
A clean update.

Additional info:

The work around is to use
yum update --exclude=rsyslog --exclude=syslog-ng
But if the updates are security updates, for either of these packages, then this
is not a good solution but it will update all the rest of the system.

After having more time to research the solution a better fix is to 
1.)  yum remove syslog-ng
...
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Erasing   : syslog-ng                    ######################### [1/1] 

Removed: syslog-ng.i386 0:2.0.5-1.fc8
Complete!
...

2.)  yum update
...
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating  : rsyslog                      ######################### [1/2] 
  Cleanup   : rsyslog                      ######################### [2/2] 

Updated: rsyslog.i386 0:1.19.11-1.fc8
Complete!

3.) yum list rsyslog syslog-ng
Installed Packages
rsyslog.i386                             1.19.11-1.fc8          installed       
Available Packages
syslog-ng.i386                           2.0.5-1.fc8            fedora