F10 Fresh Vanilla Install with Updates Has Broken NetworkManager

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Mon Mar 16 12:33:27 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
> 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.

I'm not following.  Where is the use in allowing you to do a broken
upgrade?  ISTM that in a situation like this it *should* fail until
you add on the needed additional repositories.

			regards, tom lane




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