http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759
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Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |LATER
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-11 16:38 -------
This problem is not a bug but a feature request to avoid using global parameter
to skip broken database. It should take place in rpm and urpmi problably to be
correctly handled.
It will be examined later as a feature enhancement.
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I am pasting in the email I sent to the Cooker list as I have only received one
response from MandrakeSoft employees so far.
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I noticed that urpmi now tries to figure out all the unresolved
dependencies on your system just like how apt does. I think this is
extremely annoying behavior and I wish I was disabled by default.
Justification:
I have an application, SuperFoo, installed. It has a dependency on IBM's
Java Runtime Environment (JRE). I need to use Sun's JRE because IBM
hasn't bothered to release one that likes gcc 3.2 yet. And I know from
my usage that it works fine with Sun's JRE. SuperFoo is a proprietary
application so I don't have the source for it. Having to repackage it
every release to remove the stupid hard requirement on IBM-JDK is
extremely annoying.
So I can install SuperFoo with straight rpm -Uvh --nodeps. Life is good
and I can use SuperFoo.
Now being the good Cooker person that I am, I do 'urpmi --auto-select'
to sync with the latest packages.
The latest urpmi says "Hey, we have unresolved dependencies! I MUST
uninstall SuperFoo!", even though SuperFoo has nothing to do with all
the other packages that I will be updating.
I hope you see where this is painful. Every time I want to update
Cooker, it will try to uninstall SuperFoo even though there is no reason
to.
Previously I have bragged to Debian users that urpmi is smarter because
it only concerns itself with the packages that are being
installed/upgraded.
Please tell me there is hope that urpmi can be made smart again?
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To this Fran�ois Pons responded:
Ok, I hope I will not hurt sensibility but urpmi doesn't care if
unrelated dependencies are unresolved. *BUT* urpmi when resolving
related dependencies (and related should be understanded in the very
large part) it may add unresolved dependencies.
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So my question is why would this unrelated unresolved dependency be added? Or
using the example from above, why does it want to remove SuperFoo which has an
unresolved dependency on IBM-JDK even though nothing else that I am
installing/upgrading has any requirement on IBM-JDK (or anything Java related
for that matter).
Thanks.
