[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Do updates instead of installs when resolving dependencies

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 31 21:21:53 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 12:21 +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The following patch tries to update already installed pkgs instead of just 
> installing the "best" arch and think about updates later on. This makes 
> updates for dependencies more like regular updates and avoids ending up with 
> pkgs of different version and different arches installed at once - which 
> will most likely result in multilib file conflicts. The two scenarios that 
> should change their behavior are:
> 
> foo-1.i386 installed; bar requires: foo-2 resulted in foo-1.i386 and 
> foo-2.x86_64 installed. Now foo-1.i386 is updated to foo-2.i386
> 
> foo-1.i386 and foo-1.x86_64 installed; bar requires: foo-2 also resulted in 
> foo-1.i386 and foo-2.x86_64 installed. Now foo-1.i386 and foo-1.x86_64 are 
> updated to foo-2.i386 and foo-2.x86_64
> 
> Additionally some multilib <-> noarch transitions should win, too.
> 

1. I applied this and I applied your fix in the email you responded to.
thanks

2. I like this format for patches better. It is much easier to process.
thank you.

-sv





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