On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, seth vidal wrote: > 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. Maybe the --fix-dependencies thing could find a home in package-cleanup since it already has the --problems mode? Meaning just 1) install any missing dependencies when possible 2) offer to remove packages whose dependencies can't be met (perhaps only with an additional --allow-removal or such cli switch and default to no removals) - Panu -
