On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:04 -0800, karsten wrote: > Hello Seth, > > Been thinking...... > When you go from one major level in distro (like ydl3.x to 4.x) you will > very likely encounter the situation that: > A(old) requires B(old) > A(new) requires B(new) > while > yum requires B(old) > > yum therefore will not perform the update - as it says - yum requires a > resource which will not be available. > So it is itself preventing itself from updating. > > In that case: Is it possible to require yum to download the rpms > nescesarry for the update regardless that it is unable to perform it? > If it is then the problem is solved because you just need to uninstall > yum while updating. Yum can then be reinstalled and requested to clean > up the mess. > why not have an update for yum in the mix that will resolve the requirement on B(old)? Right now in yum 2.2.X I do not believe there are any modules unloaded by the time the transaction is run. At which point yum doesn't _need_ anything anymore at all. It's all in memory. so where's the problem? -sv
