yum: rpm_check_debug vs. depsolve: rhnlib needs python(abi) = 2.4

[Jon Ciesla]

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:39:31AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>
>> I expect that we(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/LiveUpgrade) might
>> want to find a way to deal with this, maybe not with Obsoletes, but
>> something inthe f-r.rpm %postinstall or something.  Maybe not.
>
> It seems to me that if a package blocks something in updates
> and is an "orphan" (both conditions tested in one time or another)
> then it should be marked for a removal; otherwise I would be very
> careful about doing anything hasty.  Likely packages deleted
> that way should be marked quite prominently in logs.

Agreed.  I wouldn't want to pull something off someone's system just
because Fedora stopped carrying it, if the user finds it useful.  In the
case of an abi dep, like rhnlib and python, yum sees that the upgrade will
break rhnlib, so won't do it with rhnlib there, which is The Right Thing
To Do.  Maybe we just leave all as it is, and add a list of dead packages
to the release notes for each release, so you know what to pull beforehand
if you want.

>    Michal
>


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