On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:06:14 +0300
Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 2) urpmi often fails with dependencies. For example I just upgraded
> > openssh. "urpmi openssh' failed with a dependency on an old version
> > of openssh-askpass. I had to manually specify it. This was extra
> > annoying since I got the original failure after downloading 50 MB
> > rpms which weren't installed due to the failed dependencies, and
> > subsequently deleted as described in issue #1.
> >
>
> urpmi dependencies management is just as good as RPM authors make it.
> Urpmi knows only about those dependencies that are specified in RPM
> header. If openssh/openssh-askpass do not specify dependencies urpmi
> cannot do anything about it.
>
A trick I use, at least to overcome the failed dependency problem, is to
also have rpmdrake open.
If urpmi gives a failed depend message Try force Y/n I use rpmdrake to install the
needed pkg/pkgs and then tell urpmi Y to force install and everyone is happy.
Charles
