Re: Delta RPMs -

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On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 13:59 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote:
> On 24/08/17 13:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > The man page for dnf says: "Allow erasing of installed packages to
> > resolve dependencies" (which is actually not as clear as it might be -
> > would removing every package on the system resolve dependencies?).
> > 
> > However that is consistent with what it did in your case. It removed FF
> > because it couldn't update nspr, not "Because dnf wasn't able to update
> > Firefox to the best version it removed it instead", which is the phrase
> > I was reacting to.
> 
> I disagree. It could not install the updated Firefox because it depends 
> on a version of nspr that has not been released yet. Removing the 
> currently installed Firefox did not resolve any dependencies at all. At 
> best, that would imply that it needed to uninstall Firefox because it 
> was blocking the update of something else, which so far as I can tell is 
> not the case.
> 
> Or, if that is the case, which packages in the current update DO depend 
> on the newest version of Firefox, which in turn depends on a package 
> that hasn't been released yet? Surely under your interpretation they 
> would have been removed too?

I think the exact meaning of the man-page phrase is unclear, so I for
one can't tell if what happened is a bug or a feature. Either way, I'd
suggest you file it as a bug against dnf and maybe someone will react.

poc
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