[Yum] Yum munging systems?

[Karsten Jeppesen]

Panu Matilainen wrote:

>>Of all the depsolvers out there apt is the one with most potential of
>>screwing up your system royally if you happen to have some unresolved
>>dependencies on your system (as a result of rpm -[U|i|e] --nodeps), yum
>>(or any other non-apt related depsolver) will want to remove dozens of
>>packages just to force rpmdb consistency.
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Yes - exactly why I shifted. I designed the briQ which runs on a 
subversion of YellowDog. In the start I noticed that when I took a newly 
installed YDL and did a yum update, then yum would always complain about 
a lot of unresolved dependencies. I never got apt to run very well. It 
always crashed or screwed the rpm base up.

>>If you have a pointer to the specific case where apt-rpm did the "right
>>thing" and yum didn't, there might be a lesson to learn, otherwise it's
>>just hogwash.
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I have only seen yum screw up in places where there were no easy way 
out. Call it operator error.

Karsten