[Yum] a-b-c

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Apr 3 06:41:55 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:04 -0800, karsten wrote:
> Hello Seth,
> 
> Been thinking......
> When you go from one major level in distro (like ydl3.x to 4.x) you will 
> very likely encounter the situation that:
> A(old) requires B(old)
> A(new) requires B(new)
> while
> yum requires B(old)
> 
> yum therefore will not perform the update - as it says - yum requires a 
> resource which will not be available.
> So it is itself preventing itself from updating.
> 
> In that case: Is it possible to require yum to download the rpms 
> nescesarry for the update regardless that it is unable to perform it?
> If it is then the problem is solved because you just need to uninstall 
> yum while updating. Yum can then be reinstalled and requested to clean 
> up the mess.
> 

why not have an update for yum in the mix that will resolve the
requirement on B(old)?

Right now in yum 2.2.X I do not believe there are any modules unloaded
by the time the transaction is run.

At which point yum doesn't _need_ anything anymore at all.

It's all in memory.


so where's the problem?

-sv





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