On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 23:10 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 22:59 +0200, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > Hi all... I must be missing something obvious or I have not noticed this > > behavior before... > > > > I'm in the process of building a bunch of packages for fedora 7 and > > tried installing them on a brand new i386 install through a meta package > > (ie: a package that only contains explicit dependencies using Requires: > > and installs all required packages as a side effect). There _are_ > > packages missing but yum happily goes ahead and installs the meta > > package and the dependencies it can find, and ignores the missing > > dependencies! Is this expected behavior?? > > > > A "package-cleanup --problems" does show the missing dependencies. How > > can yum install something which does not have its dependencies met? It > > seems to me like a very very basic bug in yum... > > Does this happen in CLi or in the gui frontend? This is happening with a plain simple command line yum invocation... yum install package_name That's it... > I installed several > packages throught the gui short after the install and it missed even > deps that were in the repos. However, recently I attempted to do "yum > update", which failed due to firefox, so I did "yum --exclude=firefox > update", which again failed, because some packages that wanted update > needed newer firefox. What was however my shock, when I did "yum > --exclude firefox update": it updated all packages that had deps on > newer firefox, and updated firefox-devel. That broke my epiphany, as it > was updated against newer firefox, whilst epiphany-extensions was still > for older one and installed firefox was the older one. Luckily I fixed > it by running "yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update firefox" which > updated all the rest of packages depending on old firefox and firefox > itself. > > I too wonder whether this behaviour is expected, or whether is it a bug. Sounds like a bug to me... -- Fernando -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
