Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > >>Richard Hally wrote: >> >> >> >>>Igor Jagec wrote: >>> >>> >>>>... >>>>--> Running transaction check >>>>--> Processing Dependency: libtotem-plparser.so.0 for package: rhythmbox >>>>--> Processing Dependency: hotplug >= 3:2004_04_01-10 for package: >>>>sane-backends--> Processing Dependency: hotplug for package: udev >>>>--> Finished Dependency Resolution >>>>Error: Missing Dependency: libtotem-plparser.so.0 is needed by package >>>>rhythmboxError: Missing Dependency: hotplug >= 3:2004_04_01-10 is needed >>>>by package sane-backends >>>>Error: Missing Dependency: hotplug is needed by package udev >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>yum --exclude=totem\* --exclude=initscripts update >>> >>> >>> >> >>After yum refused to update my system, I tried instead 'smart upgrade'. >>Smart went ahead and correctly performed the update. >> >>While it is _possible_ to get yum to do the update, that is only after you >>manually figure out just what depends it's complaining about. This is not >>trivial, and even worse on a multiarch system. >> >> > Point is that you should get the dependency issue resolved through file > bug reports or potentially deal with other issues caused due to missing > packages. You can work around this using a script - > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum but please do notify the > relevant maintainers if you use this. Dont use this blindly. > > " > > I strongly believe that most users would prefer the smart behavior, or at > least the option of being asked. Specifically, if some dependencies have > problems, offer to go ahead with other packages that don't have problems." > > Smart package behavior of *downgrading* packages to support dependencies > is not what RPM has been designed for and neither it is tested by the > Fedora developers. However if you must use it, it is under review in > Fedora Extras packages and should be available under the repository soon > but you will not get any support for any potential issues you deal with it > from the Fedora Core developers merely because they never tested this > functionality in the first place nor do they resources to support and test > multiple package managers with completely different dependency resolving > algorithms. Yum will continue to be integrated better through Anaconda, > pirut etc. > > Smart did NOT downgrade in this case. IIUC, what it did is what I consider optimal, it offered to upgrade the rest of the packages that didn't have a problem. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
