Bug 76144 – the new obsoletes functionality introduces unexpected side effects

Bug 76144 - the new obsoletes functionality introduces unexpected side effects

Summary:	the new obsoletes functionality introduces unexpected side effects

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	up2date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	high Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Adrian Likins
QA Contact:	Jay Turner
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Blocks:	77359
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Reported:	2002-10-17 11:08 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2015-01-07 19:01 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-06-23 12:46:44 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-17 11:08:22 EDT

Description of Problem:

With the new obsoletes functionality, the expected behavior of up2date has
changed in a way that was suprising, and could be problematic.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

up2date-2.7.61-7.x.1

How Reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a 7.0 machine with LPRng
2. run the initial up2date -- note that cups is not offered
3. run another up2date with the new client -- note that cups is now offered

Actual Results:

with the 2.7.61-7.x.1 up2date, it tries to upgrade LPRng -> cups

Expected Results:

the previous behavior where LPRng was kept at errata release levels

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2002-10-18 17:04:35 EDT

working on some server side fixes for this...

basically get to blacklist random packages from 6.2-7.3 with bogus
useage of Obsoletes.

Comment 2 Adrian Likins 2002-12-06 17:12:47 EST

the server side changes, and the new obsoletes blacklist support 
should take care of this. Moving to modified.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2003-06-23 12:46:44 EDT

The given test case works, and I'm going to assume that all instances of this
issue have been fixed.

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