From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: If the RHN version of a package is marked as obsoleting a package that's currently installed, then up2date will always try to install that package, even a newer, 3rd-party version of the package is already installed. (I think this is what's happening - I may be wrong. See "Steps to reproduce" for the exact problem that I'm seeing.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.2.38-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build SpamAssassin 2.64 from the SRPM at http://www.spamassassin.org/. This creates 3 RPMs: spamassassin-2.64-1, spamassassin-tools-2.64-1, and perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64-1. 2. Install these RPMs. Upgrade or replace Red Hat's version of the spamassassin RPM (2.55-3.1). 3. Run up2date. Actual Results: up2date says that spamassassin-2.55-3.1 obsoletes perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64-1 and tries to "upgrade" from spamassassin-2.64-1 to spamassassin-2.55-3.1. Expected Results: up2date should recognize that, even if spamassassin-2.55-3.1 says it obsoletes perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64-1, a newer version of spamassassin is already installed. up2date should therefore not attempt to "upgrade" from spamassassin-2.64-1 to spamassassin-2.55-3.1. Additional info:
This bug is a duplicate of bug #118110.
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