Re: yum vs apt

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 20:10 +0200, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> hello,
> 
> The questions: "which is better?" and "why make this default instead of that?" 
> were probably discussed, and I don't want to start such a discussion now.
> 
> I just want to ask, why such the situations are possible and if there is a 
> plan to avoid this:
> 
> On FC5 I was using only 'yum'. According to this tool all the dependencies 
> were satisfied. But today I've installed 'apt' from extras, and 
> running "apt-get update && apt-get -s dist-upgrade" returned:
> <code>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   docbook-dtds: PreDepends: openjade (= 1.3.2)
> </code>
> 
> "rpm -q --requires docbook-dtds" indeed showed, that openjade is required.
> Why yum have not installed that?
> 

You can check for unresolved deps using:

rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5

see if it returns anything odd.

Also if you could look in /var/log/yum.log from when you installed
docbook-dtds and see what else is listed for that time.

thanks,
-sv