Strange package dependency problem

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 20 03:00:07 UTC 2004


Richard Hally said:
> Thomas Molina said:
>> So is it ever planned that simply clicking on the rhn applet and running
>> up2date from the panel should work?
>
> For the development tree, no.
>
> --
> William Hooper
>
> What makes you think so?? Doesn't it seem really stupid for so many people
> to be wasting so much time just trying to get their systems updated. (look
> back thru the past messages and see how many are about the problems with
> updating(yum and up2date both)).  Perhaps Red Hat Inc. could put a little
> more effort into this fixing this bottleneck and reap the rewards of more
> productive time from the free(as in beer) labor they are getting from the
> "community" </end>

Unless you have some magically way of all packages that depend on a new
package get updated, then you have this problem.  That's why development
is described as "These packages are untested and still under development."
 The alternative is to slow development to a craw so that everything can
be kept in sync.  Take a look at how long is planned between the devel
freeze and a test release and you will see why this makes no sense.

If it bothers you that much, just pick a certain set of packages you want
to test and only update them.  Or, don't update anything until you find a
bug, then update and see if it is fixed.
-- 
William Hooper





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