[Triumf-linux-managers] SL4: Mozilla replaced by Seamonkey

[Konstantin Olchanski]

FYI, current SL errata include "seamonkey" rpms that are supposed
to replace the "mozilla" rpms. "yum" used by the automatic update
script cannot handle this replacement and all automatic and manual
updates of SL4 are presently failing.

This seems to be part of an unannounced revolution in redhat-land:
recently, without much warning, firefox-1.something was replaced
by firefox-1.5.something (yum handled this correctly), now
mozilla is being renamed/replaced as seamonkey (yum bombed).

I am sure there are good reasons for all these gyrations,
but users tend to become confused ("what happened to my mozilla?")
and unhappy ("why things change without warning?").

I am sure we are not the only ones affected by the failing
updates and I would give Red Hat and SL a few more days to sort
things out before we take some local action.

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Konstantin Olchanski
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