Strange package dependency problem

[William Hooper]

Swamper said:
> William Hooper wrote:
>> Swamper said:
>> > William Hooper wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > What are we gaining by breaking the package management system?
>>
>> Unless you are forcing packages I don't see how the package management
>> system is being broken.  To the contrary, the package management system
>> is
>> working as designed because it won't let you install packages that would
>> break dependencies on installed packages.
>>
>> Maybe we should go back to the old way of making everyone manually
>> download and update packages so that people won't complain about yum and
>> up2date not working...
>
> Are you complaining about people complaining?  Maybe they are
> complaining because yum and up2date are not working?

up2date and yum are working just fine.

> Why don't
> either of those programs just skip the packages that are having
> problems and continue on?

Because that isn't what they are designed to do.
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> The package management system is not working when it holds up
> multiple packages in the queue that don't have dependency
> problems for one or two that do.

The package management system is continuing to provide you with a
consistent system and not breaking your existing packages.

> If that is the way the package
> management system is designed then maybe it should go back to
> the drawing board.

Let us know when you have code to test.

-- 
William Hooper