On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:03 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:44:23 -0600, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There is an update to wireless-tools in updates-released, but > > NetworkManager blocks it because it is linked against libiw.so.27 and > > the new wireless-tools provides libiw.so.28. > > > > yum doesn't handle this problem very well either: > > yum handles the problem just fine..... > yum tries to resolve the deps... there are conflicting deps so yum fails. > > What would you prefer yum do? Install a package in a way that causes > a broken dep chain inside your rpm database? If the deps can't be met > without causing conflicts, yum tells you and stop processing, how is > this not correct behavior when there really is a broken dep in the > repo tree? To be fair it's a case I should be checking for in yum. if a package is already in the ts and it's not one of the packages that can be installed multiple times: raise an error and/or cause problems. -sv