Zif backport repository for F15 available for testing

Jef Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 19:38:14 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I'm
>> just trying to test how well zif handles the multple provider case
>> and understand how it makes the judgment on what is installed.
>
> There's probably a pretty strong argument to be made that if package A requires foo, and packages B, C, and D all provide foo, that the proper answer (whether using zif or yum) would be to ask the user which they would prefer.  Any automated system is going to be prone to being tricked one way or another.

Wow... just wow.

-jef"please hold while koji asks you a series of questions concerning
multiple provider cascades to pre-populate the build environment for
your rawhide scratch build that you have just requested"spaleta


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