[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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