update to F11 with yum

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 4 23:52:29 UTC 2009


On 06/05/2009 05:07 AM, Alan Evans wrote:

> I recall some time ago, perhaps FC8 or 9, that trying to remove
> wireless-tools would threaten to remove nearly every package on the
> system, including the kernel. Was that because yum was broken? It was
> certainly threatening to remove something that it shouldn't.

No. It wasn't a bug in yum but the way things are packaged. Yum is
correctly doing its job.

> I did early on ask if what I was seeing was a bug. I was hoping
> someone would help me pinpoint the source so that maybe a bugzilla
> could be filed against the appropriate package if it was a bug.

If you consider something a bug, just file it. I am sure the plugin
developer would want to know about potential issues.

Rahul




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