On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 09:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:14:15PM +0200, Stefano Cavallari wrote: > > out how to fix any dependencies and force an upgrade. > > In apt I would have just done: apt-get -f install; apt-get dist-upgrade > > Note that "-f install" in apt doesn't mean "--force install" -- it means > "--fix-broken install". It attempts to put your system into a > "all-dependencies are met" state (because apt won't work at all if there's > problems). It hopefully does this by adding any missing packages (could be > useful -- maybe a yum plugin could do this?), but if it can't, it removes > any "troublemakers". That wouldn't be very yum-like (and probably a better > approach for any such plugin would be to just list the packages with deps > that can't be met anywhere). 1. plugins are not the answer everytime. 2. package-cleanup in yum-utils does have a --problems option to list what packages have broken deps or conflicts in your rpmdb. -sv
