----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Jan Zelený" <jzeleny@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 5:54:34 PM > Subject: Re: Thank God for yum-deprecated :-) > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 17:35:18 +0200, > Jan Zelený <jzeleny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >That's basically what --allowerasing is about. The idea is that when you run > >upgrade, you most likely don't want this upgrade to remove any of the > >packages > >that are currently installed on your system. As the name says, the -- > >allowerasing switch removes this assumption, allowing the dependency solver > >to > >have more available solutions to choose from. > > But it doesn't always remove packages that would allow upgrading another > package. The documentation doesn't appear to give precise information > about when packages will be erased in order to allow upgrades. The case > where I'd like to see it work is when there is a soname bump, but not all > dependencies have been updated yet. In most cases I prefer to remove the > unupdated packages temporary so that I can use the latest version of the > library. It would also be useful for upograding between Fedora releases > where retired packages can also block library updates. Right, it still does not allow the depsolver to remove a capability at all. It allows it only to replace a package which provides a required capability with another package which provides it as well. > >Back to your original question, I am not sure what the problem is. You seem > >to > >describe a situation where package has some broken deps and therefore can't > >be > >installed in which case it is not going to be installed, neither by yum nor > >by > >dnf and --skip-broken will have no effect on that. Or am I missing > >something? > > There are cases where yum gets to a point where it won't do any installs > or updates, even though --skip-broken is turned on and some installs or > updates are possible. You can work around this by trying to update or install > a smaller set of packages. For updates dnf is better, but for installs it is > currently worse. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- Radek Holý Associate Software Engineer Software Management Team Red Hat Czech -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
