Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > James Antill wrote: >> Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >>> I thought disabling the whiteout plugin would allow it to work. But >>> no dice. When I do an rpm --eval on the macro it shows it but it does >>> not seem to use it. yum update still shows the depsolving problem. >>> This is with F11 rpm 4.7.0. >>> >> >> If yum shows a depsolving problem, workarounds in rpm aren't going to >> help because yum has it's own depsovler. > > Then how can this preupgrade whiteout plugin work? All it does is > push a list into the '_dependency_whiteout' macro in RPM. Isn't that > supposed to eliminate some of the depsolving problems in yum? <obi-wan-kenobi> *waves hand* there are no depsolving problems in yum </obi-wan-kenobi> Again, you probably want to speak to Will Woods about preupgrade, or any of the anaconda maintainers, about what that plugin does and how etc. I first looked at it an hour ago or so, to answer your question. A quick google search turns up: http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-testing/msg81476.html ...which is a packaging problem only seen by the rpm depsolver (yum doesn't have the data to see file conflicts). But from a yum developers point of view, if you are trying to work around broken packaging data you are almost certainly on the wrong path. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
