On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 22:02 +0000, John5342 wrote: > 2009/3/20 Adam Miller <maxamillion@xxxxxxxxx> > Then why was I able to pull the new rpm without any other > packages > when going from Alpha -> Current Rawhide? > > Because in this particular case rpm didnt need a newer version of any > other packages but there have been and will continue to be many cases > where rpm does require later versions of some supporting library. > These are the cases i think Jesse was talking about when saying that > we cant have yum install rpm by itself first regardless. It may rely > on some other updated package and that would fail under those > circumstances I don't see why it would fail. When I spoke to him, Jesse's argument was not that it would fail (or, more precisely, that it would be any more *likely* to fail than the current system), just that in most practical real-world cases it would not be significantly different from the current system and it's therefore not worth the effort to implement. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
