Florian Festi schrieb:
seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:46 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
For dist upgrades it might even be necessary to remove already
installed pkgs. This all has to be done with care or you end up with
a system with some of the essential pkgs (kernel, glibc, yum,
Python, ...) missing or in an endless loop.
there are several thousand ways that I hate "removing already installed
pkgs" as an automatic solution to a depsolving problem. That kind of
thinking for me does not fill me with confidence as I've watched that
behavior screw up far too often.
We have implemented that in our own depsolver where it works quite
well. We were able to upgrade between all Fedora releases since FC4
without manual interaction. But for a machine I care about I would
omit the -y switch...
In fact there is no way doing dist upgrades without removing old
packages. And I have more confidence in an well thought algorithm than
into a hand crafted pkg list.
some reasons why it actually does not work :(
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-October/msg01403.html
eg.
cyrus-imapd.x86_64 2.3.9-7.fc6
cyrus-imapd.x86_64 2.3.8-3.fc7
cyrus-imapd.x86_64 2.3.9-7.fc8 (2007-10-22)
f7 < f6 = f8
sorry , the dist-upgarde can not work without removing packages
but you should not patch yum you shoud patch the maintainers.
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shrek-m
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