On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:27:51PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > > After some time, this failed, because iiimf-libs is gone, with no > > replacement or nothing to obsolete it but with a chain of dependencies. > > Quick fix was to just remove that package and try again. > This is not an isolated case : Any package removed from Core without > another obsoleting it will cause similar breakage. Yeah -- and that's a problem for anaconda too, not exclusive to online updates. > Now... I know this is going to sound hackish and ugly, but why not have an > important Core package (say "fedora-release" for instance) obsolete these > removed packages up to their last known version? This still leaves the > opportunity to re-introduce them at a later date. How about a new "fedora-obsolete-packages", listing everything left in this situation and hey, even giving pointers to reasons why.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
