[lug] How to change rpm package names

[Michael Hirsch]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Michael> I thought I'd done this before, but I've lost the trick.  I thought I
>> Michael> recalled an "obsolete" declaration in the spec file, but I can't find
>> Michael> anything about that anymore.
>>
>> Yeah, you can write "Obsoletes: package"
>
> Thanks Tom.  I tried that.  RPM built and knows that it obsoletes the
> package, but "yum update" (on CentOS 5) just complains of conflicts.
> Somehow I need to figure out how to tell yum to remove the obsolete
> package.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but it looks like I was missing
something in yum.  "yum upgrade" looks like the right command.
According to the man page that is the same as "yum update --obsoletes"
which will replace obsolete package.  Guess I didn't RTFM well enough.

Michael