kernel-devel: should yum install, not update?
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Jan 25 04:36:42 UTC 2005
On Jan 24, 2005, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote:
> It is the packager's decision whether he will craft a package that
> will allow concurrent non-conflicting installs of the same package
> in different versions. This is currently (only) true for the kernel
> packages, but could easily be extended to gcc and python packages.
> So if the packager has taken care to allow for concurrent installs he
> will tag his package appropriately.
> A higher level resolver has otherwise no chance on deriving this
> information and the current patching of resolvers to allow certain
> packages to be installed instead of upgraded will have an end.
And why couldn't the depsolver itself verify that conflicts do not
exist between the installed version and the to-be-installed one? I
think it's my turn to show that we don't need additional annotations
:-)
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