On 11/19/10 05:48 PM, Steven Acres wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Shawn Walker <shawn.wal...@oracle.com <mailto:shawn.wal...@oracle.com>> wrote:On 11/19/10 04:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/19/10 04:08 PM, Steven Acres wrote: ... Specifically for Shawn: Isn't there somewhere that one of these folks can file a bug report on this? Seems there is a dep resolving issue with the pkg manager. Dependency resolution is working exactly as it is supposed to. However, the error messaging is confusing and this is being worked on. Sorry, let me clarify. If I recall correctly, there were two *different* problems discussed in this thread. One problem was about a dependency that wasn't installed for a package and should have been. That was caused by a problem *in the package itself* not in packamanager; packagemanager obviously can't resolve dependencies that haven't been declared in the package. If you want to file a bug for the *package* missing a dependency, then do so at defect.opensolaris.org <http://defect.opensolaris.org>. The second item discussed in this thread was a message about no updates being available or a constraint error, and that's what my original response was referring to. -Shawn Thanks for that Shawn, fair enough. By "...error messaging being worked on", would part of that work be towards messages which offer a solution (i.e. "Stuff with Foopkg is broken due to brokenness .. do you want to nuke Foopkg [y/n]?")?
The best option for the package system is to try as hard as possible to tell you what it found, and then the user has decide what's wrong, and what action to take.
Ultimately, the package system can't accurately determine what's "wrong" since it doesn't know what's "right" unless the user tells it.
There are improvements being worked on to the messaging, but I'm not part of the group that works on the packagemanager so I can't tell you what they will do.
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