From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Foobar/1.0.1-1.4.3.foo Description of problem: yum upgrade from rhel-3 rh-postgresql to rhel-4 postgresql fails because wrong package obsoletes rh-postgresql-SUB_PACKAGE:s. postgresql package obsoletes all rh-postgresql-* sub-packages while postgresql-server should obsolete rh-postgresql-server. Currently postgresql package has obsoletes for all sub-packages so update will remove all sub-packages leaving system without postgresql-server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): postgresql-7.4.7--2.RHEL4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have rhel-3 2. yum update to rhel-4 3. there is no postgresql-server package (or other postgresql-*) sub-packages. Actual Results: postgresql and postgresql-libs packages are installed on system. but all other sub-packages are missing. Expected Results: If rpm tag: Obsoletes: rh-postgresql-server was in correct sub-package, upgrade would have worked. And same goes for other sub-packages. postgresql-tcl should obsolete rh-postgresql-tcl etc. Additional info:
A fix for this is pending for RHEL4 U1. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144435 ***