On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/2 Olivier Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Doing an opkg remove gtk+-fastscaling and opkg upgrade gtk+ solved the >> issue, I think. YMMV though. > > I needed > > opkg remove -force-depends gtk+-fastscaling > > but otherwise this sorted out the error messages.
Thank you. I really appreciate the work-around for gtk+. However I think this represents an example of a deeper issue. How many -force-depends, -nodeps or remove foo / install bar are we expecting new users to navigate when trying to upgrade from their factory configurations? Is it not possible to get the package dependencies properly defined so that opkg will "just work"? If not, then I suppose that would lead to a whole series of work-arounds (hopefully documented on the wiki) that a new user would be expected to find and apply to their factory-configured device. Already we have a fairly critical requirement to flash a new u-boot (not mentioned in "getting started"). If we expect a new users to start by flashing a "recent" kernel and/or rootfs, we should say that in "getting started". What about users like me that have tried to keep current strictly with opkg (except for the u-boot re-flash) to avoid stomping on locally changed configuration options, locally developed helper scripts, etc. And finally, what about the chain of messages like: Upgrading task-base-kernel26 on root from 1.0-r69 to 1.0-r71... Downloading http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/om-gta02/task-base-kernel26_1.0-r71_om-gta02.ipk task-base-kernel26: unsatisfied recommendation for kernel-module-input task-base-kernel26: unsatisfied recommendation for kernel-module-rtc-dev task-base-kernel26: unsatisfied recommendation for kernel-module-rtc-proc task-base-kernel26: unsatisfied recommendation for kernel-module-rtc-sysfs task-base-kernel26: unsatisfied recommendation for kernel-module-rtc-sa1100 task-base-kernel26: unsatisfied recommendation for kernel-module-unix How is a new user, or even a someone like me, to know if this is a cause for concern? Given the experiences of many on this list that an upgrade sometimes results in an unusable system, requiring a re-flash, I have understandable fears about blinding upgrading without understanding the consequences of messages like these. _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
