[Yum] RE: package gnome-vfs2 needs gnome-mime-data >= 2.0.0-11

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Nov 5 16:06:47 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:07, Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:36:47AM -0500, seth vidal alleged:
> > You're right. But I'm not sure if there is a way to implement 'go back
> > and forth b/t noarch and any other compatible arch even when exactarch=1
> > is set' w/o making the code god-awful in that section.
> 
> Maybe exactarch could be ignored during an 'upgrade', but honored during
> an 'update'.  Or, print a warning when exactarch is preventing a match
> when no other matches are available.

Ignoring things simply based on the mode is a bad bad bad bad idea. It
means unknown reactions.

Additionally I think 'upgrade' mode is going away entirely. something
like yum --with-obsoletes update will occur.

-sv





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