Package updating

[Stanton Finley]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:33 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:49 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
> 
> > > I would still like a reply from redhat. Is there a way to formulate a
> > > broken deps list that is complete ? If not then maybe someone should
> > > revisit this dependency hell we have descended into. I fail to see how
> > > this is any better than the .dll hell some unnamed OS suffers from.
> 
> > The reason why it is better is that this is a TEST RELEASE.
> 
> So?
> 
> > Things are expected to be broken.
> 
> Right. But give people the tools (even if hard to use/inconvenient) to find
> out exactly how/where. I.e., how to find out what can't be installed
> because it is being blocked, and exactly how it is blocked. As things
> stand, I just run "yum -y update", parse the output to find out what it
> would like to install, and then go over the resulting list trying to
> "yum -y upgrade" one by one. There has to be a better way...
> 
> A list of /everything/ that depends on a package/feature (directly or
> indirectly), and another one of all the stuff required would go a long
> way... they would probably be humongous, but with standard text filters they
> could be handled.
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Horst, have you tried either of the scripts found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum ? They allow you to
automatically update packages with yum that do no have dependency issues
so that you don't have to get them "one by one".

Stanton Finley
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