pacakage management

[Toralf Lund]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.

I didn't think it would expect anything in particular, except what the 
rpm database tells it to. But I guess there must be a bug somewhere. 
Never encountered it myself, though.

>
> 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.

What I like about system-install-packages is that it essentially gives 
me the same package view as the system installer, and lets me work on 
the same package groups, but perhaps yum can also do the same thing 
nowadays? And how about direct installation of a simple package list? 
Will the new GUI be able to do that, too?


- Toralf