pacakage management

[Paul Howarth]

Toralf Lund wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> nick wrote:
>>
>>> I've just installed Fedora and have run the updates.
>>
>>
>>
>> Which version of Fedora?
>>
>> > But Im having
>>
>>> probelms to install additional pacakges in package management in
>>> gnome.
>>> I get an error message say;
>>> Packages no found
>>> The follwing packages could not be found on your system.
>>> Installation cannot continue until they are installed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't use the "Add/Remove Packages" tool (system-config-packages); it 
>> gets broken after you've done the updates. Better to use yum instead.
> 
> 
> Hmmm. Any details on the system-config-packages problems? It's always 
> worked just fine for me...

After installing updates, it gets confused by dependencies because the 
updated packages are not the ones it expects to be there to satisfy 
dependencies for the to-be-installed packages.

Examples:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=140204
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=121389

A new program called "pup" is supposed to be replacing 
system-config-packages in FC4. It's a proper GUI for yum.

Paul.