Re: Delta RPMs -

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On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 09:03 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote:
> On 23/08/17 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 08/23/2017 08:40 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > # dnf upgrade
> > > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Wed Aug 23 04:43:05 2017.
> > > Dependencies resolved.
> > > 
> > >   Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package
> > > firefox-55.0.1-1.fc26.x86_64
> > >    - nothing provides nspr >= 4.16.0 needed by firefox-55.0.2-1.fc26.x86_64
> > 
> > 
> > nspr is still in updates-testing.  If you want you can run "dnf --enablerepo
> > updates-testing update firefox"
> 
> Thank you! I have just done that. Because dnf wasn't able to update 
> Firefox to the best version it removed it instead! I assume this is a 
> result of the combination --best --allowerasing which I generally use. 
> I've never had it just remove things completely leaving no version 
> installed though :(

That doesn't look right. AFAIK "--allowerasing" will delete a package
that is blocking something else from updating, but not otherwise. It
shouldn't remove a package just because it can't get the latest
version.

poc
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