On 2006-07-24 17:06:24 +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:06:24 +0200
> From: Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] updating m4 package from factory
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 04:43:59PM +0200, Chema Ollés wrote:
> > I try to upgrade my system and see that if I update m4 from
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED],smart delete my autoconf [EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]
> > because is related with the old m4 version.I can't see any new autoconf
> > on factory directory...
> > Is it normal this lack?
>
> I asked the same question on #opensuse a week or so ago but got no
> answer. The underlying question goes much further though:
> Is it intentional that it is possible to have missing dependencies in
> the published factory tree: When the system smart-updated directfb,
> several other packages got removed as well. What was even better was a
> while ago, when udev was split into udev + somelib, and somelib wasn't
> published for one more week or so. So the core question is: Is it a
> valid state, that packages in factory can be inconsistend?
smart tries by design to get the very latest of everything. Even if it
means to remove some packages that rely on older versions.
Imho this design is stupid. but you can use:
smart --shell
upgrade
and than issue "keep package" for all packages you want to keep
darix
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