Re: [users] Problem with updating package perl-Log-Dispatch

2009-10-12 Thread Walter Heck
I googled around for it, but couldn't find anything at all. But then again, I didn't try really really hard.. Walter On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 13:11, Christoph Maser c...@financial.com wrote: Am Montag, den 12.10.2009, 06:43 +0200 schrieb Walter Heck: Steve, thanks for your excellent

Re: [users] Problem with updating package perl-Log-Dispatch

2009-10-12 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: This is still just a workaround for an issue that RPMforge should have dealt with instead of putting this burden on the user. eh? how would you suggest that RPMforge address this particular issue? i can see essentially three

Re: [users] Problem with updating package perl-Log-Dispatch

2009-10-12 Thread Steve Huff
On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: 2) package Sys::Syslog 0.16 without a man page, or with man page in some nonstandard location (thus hiding the fact that we're replacing a system package) Ah yes, this is the real issue, the need to alert the user that a system

Re: [users] Problem with updating package perl-Log-Dispatch

2009-10-12 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Tom G. Christensen wrote: Steve Huff wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: Ah yes, this is the real issue, the need to alert the user that a system package is being replaced. I feel strongly that deliberately breaking packages is the wrong way

Re: [users] Problem with updating package perl-Log-Dispatch

2009-10-12 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:05 +0200, Tom G. Christensen wrote: I agree that the current situation is not a good one. I could once again state that this is because of yum, since apt would not propose to update it. But I also don't see a good fix for this. Perhaps a yum plugin could