DNF won't give an error for broken deps
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Feb 6 19:45:54 UTC 2014
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 12:54 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 20:50 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > Does this imply that we'll have to run dnf check-update, dnf
> > update and compare the package lists to find packages with broken deps
> > to give negative karma to for testing?
> >
>
> Comments from upstream on the bug suggest we use --best to get
> information on dep errors. dnf by default will not display these since
> they're apparently troublesome to the user.
Ideally of course we should be catching these with automation. But if
dnf usage becomes really widespread before we get
taskotron/depcheck-nextgen in place, we should add this info to the
updates-testing guide. thanks!
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