[Yum-devel] _compare_providers() and testcases

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb seth vidal:
> Hey folks,
>  We found a bunch of brokeness in the _compare_providers() method
> introduced in 3.2.13. Lots of oddball cases and some loops that happen
> for odd reasons. So after some discussion in gibbering in corners we
> decided to score each providing package vs the other package then take
> the package with the best score.
>
> The patch that does this is here:
>
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/patches/yum-compare_providers-scoring.pat
>ch

I've applied it to yum version 07577aed00d900cdcf24ae60bf3006efe164cacc.

> However, when I run the test cases I get 5 failed tests
>
> 1 of them is unrelated. It's related to update() needing some more magic
> 2 of them appear to be a multilib case not sorting properly, which I'm
> working on fixing now.
> 3 of them appear to be bogus assertions in the testcases, at least as
> how I'm reading them.
>
> apply the above patch and give the test cases a run, let me know what
> you think.

If thrown on my pathologic case, the result is attached. In short: problem 
persists.

Let me know, if you need more details..

Pete
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