Chris Gerhard wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
Danek Duvall wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:25:59PM +0100, Chris Gerhard wrote:
Trying to update the image on my laptop and it is complaining about
violated constraints. The system should be only using the supported
packages so I'm not sure why it is wanting to install
[email protected],5.11-0.111 if indeed that is what this message means?
You're stuck in this weird hole that we haven't figured a
particularly good
way out of, which came up because multi-variant (sparc + x86)
packages were
introduced halfway between releases.
Actually, the source of this problem is the inability of the plan
creation phase to back-track when it has a constraint violation.
The sat solver will fix this, and similar problems as long as a
solution exists - and if it doesn't, those pkgs won't get upgraded.
Currently the failure also prevents the packages that can be upgrading
from upgrading until you individually select them which is a bit of a pain.
Yes... this is because the solver doesn't back track today; I'm working
on a complete revision of the pkg solver that _will_ find the newest
solution that will work w/ all the constraints on your system.
We know it's a pain... but we realized that we didn't have enough time
this release to complete the solver work, so we made the decision to
delay this feature until after 2009/06.
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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