yum version 2.1.9-1

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Oct 20 22:24:05 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:21, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> On Mit, 2004-10-20 at 10:37 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > You're only downloading the headers of the packages that are having some
> > action done to them by the transaction set.
> 
> Looking at repodata/primary.xml.gz I see provides, conflicts, obsoletes
> and requires, what else is required?

To resolve the deps,and to know they are resolved correctly, you either
need:

to write your own depsolver, entirely, or you hand off the information
about what you _think_ is correct to rpm and you ask it to tell you if
you've gotten it all right.

anaconda, up2date and yum do the latter.

-sv





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