kernel-devel: should yum install, not update?
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Jan 25 09:14:11 UTC 2005
On Jan 25, 2005, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2005, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote:
>>> It is the packager's decision whether he will craft a package that
>>> will allow concurrent non-conflicting installs of the same package
>>> in different versions. This is currently (only) true for the kernel
>>> packages, but could easily be extended to gcc and python packages.
>> And why couldn't the depsolver itself verify that conflicts do not
>> exist between the installed version and the to-be-installed one? I
>> think it's my turn to show that we don't need additional annotations
>> :-)
> Additional annotations for what? What problem are you trying to solve?
To indicate whether multiple versions of the same package can coexist
peacefully.
> FWIW, "missingok" generalizes to all dependencies, not just Requires:,
> and in an equivalently semantic free (from rpmlib POV) fashion.
That's a different thread (or maybe a different portion of the same
thread :-)
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