Is it possible to instruct rpm to remove an already installed rpm as an obsolete package in spec file during rpmbuild itself?

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Issue

  • It's required that the package xyz should be removed automatically as an obsolete while installing a custom built rpm package?
  • How can one specify that in spec file of that custom rpm ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7
  • rpmbuild

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