Re: Dependency hell

[Warren Togami <warren togami com>]

Richard Hally wrote:
> Please see the list of my attempts to update  my system  to  rawhide. 
> The thing that seems most incorrect is that rpm or yum do not report 
> correctly the packages that need to be excluded.  Since there always 
> seems to be some dependency problem (one gets fixed but another one 
> stops the update) it would seem that a reliable way to determine which 
> packages to exclude would be very helpful and save time that can be put 
> to better use. thanks for any help,
> Richard Hally

1) Development and test releases never were supported and there is never 
the expectation that upgrades will go smoothly all the time.  We try our 
best to prevent breakage whenever possible, but these things inevitably 
periodically happen when you have dozens of developers working on many 
interlocking pieces of the puzzle.  We are working on improving the 
standard processes to avoid more of these issues in the future, but 
eliminating it completely may never happen.

2) apt-get upgrade (but not dist-upgrade) avoids the missing pieces 
automatically.  All the way through FC2 test1 to current rawhide it has 
worked for me in not leaving a broken system.  The current selinux 
policy problem needs to be solved though.  Panu have you communicated 
with the selinux people about this?

Warren