On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:58:38AM -0500, Gene C. wrote: > Case 1: A package is install but, now, has been deleted from the > development/update tree and the installed package blocks updates. The > current answer is to manually remove the package (yum remove or rpm -e) > if, and only if, you know that package was deleted .. the recent case of > dbus-qt. This could be worked around with an "obsolete-packages" rpm in the repository, which would mark as Obsolete all such known packages. [...] > Case 2: This is similar to case 1. In this case, an older version of a > package is in the development/update tree, The currently installed > packages include one or more packages which are a "more recent version" > but one that has problems ... therefore, we need to "roll back" the > package. Again, this can be handled manually via yum remove/install or > using rpm --oldpackage if you know that the situation exists. In the non-devel tree, this is "solved" with Epochs. In the devel tree, I'd say the best thing to do is watch closely, because you're using the development tree. -- 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
