On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:33 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:49 -0700, Don Springall wrote: > > > > I would still like a reply from redhat. Is there a way to formulate a > > > broken deps list that is complete ? If not then maybe someone should > > > revisit this dependency hell we have descended into. I fail to see how > > > this is any better than the .dll hell some unnamed OS suffers from. > > > The reason why it is better is that this is a TEST RELEASE. > > So? > > > Things are expected to be broken. > > Right. But give people the tools (even if hard to use/inconvenient) to find > out exactly how/where. I.e., how to find out what can't be installed > because it is being blocked, and exactly how it is blocked. As things > stand, I just run "yum -y update", parse the output to find out what it > would like to install, and then go over the resulting list trying to > "yum -y upgrade" one by one. There has to be a better way... > > A list of /everything/ that depends on a package/feature (directly or > indirectly), and another one of all the stuff required would go a long > way... they would probably be humongous, but with standard text filters they > could be handled. > -- > Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org > Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 > Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 > Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 > Horst, have you tried either of the scripts found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum ? They allow you to automatically update packages with yum that do no have dependency issues so that you don't have to get them "one by one". Stanton Finley http://stanton-finley.net/ -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list