Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:

>
> That might be a nice createrepo feature to add such conflicts.

That would only help you if you only have a single repository - which we 
NEVER do b/c of fedora + updates + updates-testing.


>
> Yes, but that's not what I'm talking about. I mean the explicit
> conflicts between current versions of packages. I.e. the thing that
> makes the complexity exponential.
>
> For example:
> package A: depends on X
> package B: conflicts with D
> package C: provides X
> package D: provides X
>
> yum install A B fails here as it tries to install A B D. The solution
> is to install A B C.
>

And you've tested that yum doesn't work in this case? Putting together a 
unittest for it should be pretty straightforward.

-sv