On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:37:34PM -0400, Ryan Tomayko wrote: > To add a bit of info for Tim from my experiences with atrpms - there's a > couple of packages (e.g. mozilla-firebird) that I would love to use from > that repo but he has a support package (atrpms-utils or something??) > that is required by most other packages. That util package requires yum > from his repo (i.e. looks like the requires might specify his release > and not just version), which makes the entire repository unusable if you > need a custom/other yum rpm. No, that's not true. There is no dependency on any yum/apt from my site, other than the granularity of the packages (BTW I don't provide mozilla-firebird, but a repo activated by atrpms' yum/apt rpms does). > Now, you're actually seeing the other side of the problem where you > probably have a bunch of atrpms packages installed already > (including yum) and they all depend on the atrpms yum package so you > cannot remove/update yum without removing every other atrpms package > that depends on it first. I bet you get a whole bunch of dependency > removes when you do a "yum remove yum". That won't happen, but don't try removing yum with yum, use rpm --test -e package to test what you want. > Anyway, does the atrpms maintainer watch this list? Maybe we should > shoot him a quick FWIW +1 vote on removing the unneeded Requires for yum > in his util package or making it non-dependant on his release as seth > suggested.. See above. If you find a better solution I am open to any suggestions. As you can see from the atrpms' version-release data, the configuration changes rather frequently, so a rebulding and redistribution of monolithic rpms will anger users even more (in fact this design has been user driven). -- Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20030928/43f06d82/attachment.bin
