F10 Fresh Vanilla Install with Updates Has Broken NetworkManager

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Mar 16 09:25:27 UTC 2009


nodata wrote:
> Am Montag, den 16.03.2009, 00:34 +0100 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> So the real question is: why in heck did yum install an update of NM
>>> that it knew it didn't have the dependencies for?  I surmise that the
>>> install process is using --nodeps, and that seems just plain stupid.
>> The install process ignores dependencies it cannot satisfy because otherwise
>> you couldn't do an upgrade without added repositories.
>>
>>         Kevin Kofler
>>
> 
> So for the case of no added repositories, will repoclosure not catch
> this? Is there a test for this?

The process of building the install images for the DVDs pulls in all 
dependencies itself so it's not an issue for a fresh install from media; 
in the case of the problem in this thread, there *was* an added repo 
(updates).

Paul.




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