On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 05:01, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: > Hi > > I just discovered a problem when trying to upgrade my system with yum. > > One of the repositories happened to include some packages with unresolved > dependencies, specificly there were an updated alsa-kmdl package but the > updated kernel-package on which it depended was missing. > > This caused yum to just give up: > Resolving dependencies > ..package alsa-kmdl-2.4.20-19.23.rh9.at needs /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-19.23.rh9.at (not provided) > package nvidia-graphics-kmdl-2.4.20-19.23.rh9.at needs /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-19.23.rh9.at (not provided) > > > Allthough the packages alsa-kmdl and nvidia-graphics-kmdl could > of course not be installed, I think yum should upgrade the other > packages. > > > Doing the upgrade with apt causes the named packages to be held back, > and everything else to be upgraded properly. > It's doable - in the event of unresolved dependencies the affected packages would need to be removed from the transaction list. It's not that hard. But yum is going to warn the user out the wazoo about this, though. The idea of updates not being performed but yum still exiting successfully makes me cringe a bit. -sv
