On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Hoffmann, Tony wrote:

>     Does that mean that I should be mirroring the errata/obsolete stu=
> ff?
> Your mirroring tips say that I can save space by not mirroring it, bu=
> t
> your comments below suggests it is needed when doing an upgrade.

No,  that is not the same at all.  The new new seamonkey is in the 

/export/linux/scientific/4x/i386/errata/SL/RPMS

area.  You should be mirroring that as that is were the errata go.  The 
issue with seamonkey is that TUSV made it obsolete mozilla and they also 
made it provide mozilla.  Normally yum just ignores the "obsoletes",  this 
was done as "obsoletes" are normally used when one is "upgrading" to a 
newer release.  In this case they did it for a errata.  So you just need 
to use

yum upgrade 

  instead of

yum update
 
The only difference between these is that yum upgrade "honors obsoletes".

-Connie Sieh

> 
> Tony Hoffmann
> 
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:25 AM
> To: Alex Finch
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> Subject: Re: problems with yum updating mozilla
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Alex Finch wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone else seeing these errrors, or know what the solution is?
> >=20
> > I got them with the overnight yum job on our SL 4.0 machines.
> 
> Use=20
> 
>   yum upgrade mozilla*
> 
> instead of
> 
>   yum update mozilla*
> 
> The upstream vendor has replaced mozilla with seamonkey.  seamonkey=
> =20
> obsoletes mozilla.  In order for yum to see this it has to look at th=
> e=20
> obsoletes, this does not happen with the "yum update".  Obsoletes are=
>  only=20
> looked at when one does a=20
> 
>   yum upgrade
> 
> -Connie Sieh
> 
>  >=20
> >=20
> >   --------------------
> >   YUM - errata
> >   --------------------
> > Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla =3D 37:1.7.13-1.4.1 is needed by=
>  package mozilla-dom-inspector
> > Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla =3D 37:1.7.13-1.4.1 is needed by=
>  package mozilla-devel
> > Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla =3D 37:1.7.13-1.4.1 is needed by=
>  package mozilla-mail
> > Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla =3D 37:1.7.13-1.4.1 is needed by=
>  package mozilla-js-debugger
> > Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla =3D 37:1.7.13-1.4.1 is needed by=
>  package mozilla-chat
> > Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla-nss =3D 37:1.7.13-1.4.1 is neede=
> d by package mozilla-nss-devel
> > Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla-nspr =3D 37:1.7.13-1.4.1 is need=
> ed by package mozilla-nspr-devel
> >=20
> > If I do
> >   yum search mozilla | grep 37:1.7.13-1.4.1
> >=20
> > mozilla.i386                             37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-chat.i386                        37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-devel.i386                       37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-dom-inspector.i386               37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-js-debugger.i386                 37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-mail.i386                        37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-nspr.i386                        37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-nspr-devel.i386                  37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-nss.i386                         37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-nss-devel.i386                   37:1.7.13-1.4.1        sl-=
> errata
> > mozilla-devel.i386                       37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-nss-devel.i386                   37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla.i386                             37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-dom-inspector.i386               37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-nspr-devel.i386                  37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-js-debugger.i386                 37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-nss.i386                         37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-chat.i386                        37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-mail.i386                        37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> > mozilla-nspr.i386                        37:1.7.13-1.4.1        ins=
> talled
> >=20
> >   which confuses me even more!
> >=20
> >=20
>