Updates dependency/conflict checking

[Luke Macken]

Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With FC6 and updates-testing, I've gotten the following error for almost 
> a week now:
> 
> Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/bin/pdftoppm from install of 
> poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
> xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6
>   file /usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz from install of 
> poppler-utils-0.5.4-3.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
> xpdf-utils-3.01-26.fc6
> 
> Looking at CVS, this appears to have been fixed 5 hours ago [1], but the 
> more generic question remains:
> 
> This isn't the first time this has happened.  Shouldn't there be a tool 
> (or automatic check) with updates system that would check for conflicts 
> across all the packages in "official" Fedora repositories?

The current updates system has the ability to check dependency closure, 
but it isn't integrated nicely with the process (it requires human 
intervention).

The new updates system that I am working on will check closure (among 
other things) automatically before anything is pushed out.

	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UpdatesSystem

luke