Bug 481436

Summary:	Quagga obsoletes bird (and others), but why?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Skippy <david>
Component:	quagga	Assignee:	Jiri Skala <jskala>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	aglotov, david, jskala
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Description Skippy 2009-01-24 21:43:38 UTC

I'm trying to use Bird, a routing daemon. I've got an RPM from the Bird site.

The quagga RPM however obsoletes bird, so when ever I do yum update, bird disappears.

From the spec file for Quagga:
Obsoletes:	bird gated mrt zebra

Why? I thought the obsoletes tag was just to help upgraders. This doesn't help at all. I don't imagine zebra or gated users will be overjoyed either.

Comment 1 Jiri Skala 2009-02-02 14:05:21 UTC

Usage of obsoletes is an intention. The quagga contains zebra that provides the same functionality as the other packages. The other are uninstalled.

Comment 2 Skippy 2009-02-02 16:59:22 UTC

Booooooo!

Why does postfix not obsolete sendmail then (or sendmail obsolete postfix). They "provides the same functionality as the other packages". Or openoffice and gnumeric. And ipsec-tools and openswan. I can go on :-)

I can see why quagga might obselete zebra, since they both use a similar configuration language. But I don´t see why it should obsolete bird.

Comment 3 Jiri Skala 2009-07-14 11:58:33 UTC

done