Beware: External repos can break key transition
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 17 02:42:37 UTC 2008
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 16.09.2008 17:46, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> Thus yum will install the new xine-lib-extras-nonfree from Livna, but
>>> not the matching xine-lib from Fedora. Thus all apps that rely on
>>> xine will silently stop playing some videos that they were able to
>>> play beforehand.
>>
>> Huh? If that happened, I'd sure file a bug... against either the
>> package, for having a broken Requires:, or against yum/rpm for
>> ignoring the Requires:. But I'm confused, because (at least in my
>> case) yum correctly refused to install xine-libs-extras-nonfree until
>> the matching xine-lib was also available, so I don't get how this
>> would happen.
>
> This afaics would happen if Livna would have done what was suggested in
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg01462.html
Sigh. Somehow I seem to have failed to read that part of the thread. My
bad :-).
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Matthew
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