yum vs apt
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Jun 26 18:17:30 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 20:10 +0200, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> hello,
>
> The questions: "which is better?" and "why make this default instead of that?"
> were probably discussed, and I don't want to start such a discussion now.
>
> I just want to ask, why such the situations are possible and if there is a
> plan to avoid this:
>
> On FC5 I was using only 'yum'. According to this tool all the dependencies
> were satisfied. But today I've installed 'apt' from extras, and
> running "apt-get update && apt-get -s dist-upgrade" returned:
> <code>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> docbook-dtds: PreDepends: openjade (= 1.3.2)
> </code>
>
> "rpm -q --requires docbook-dtds" indeed showed, that openjade is required.
> Why yum have not installed that?
>
You can check for unresolved deps using:
rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5
see if it returns anything odd.
Also if you could look in /var/log/yum.log from when you installed
docbook-dtds and see what else is listed for that time.
thanks,
-sv
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