Yum, the repo, and failed dependencies

Ingemar Nilsson init at kth.se
Thu Aug 9 17:24:51 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:

> Don't complain, report such broken deps as soon as possible:
> 
>   http://bugzilla.redhat.com

I thought of doing that, but I wanted to check if this was something 
only experienced by me, or if there are other users that are 
experiencing the same problem.

> Until the Fedora Updates System will be capable of blocking packages
> (or package groups) which break dependencies, it's the responsibility
> of the package maintainers to not break dependencies.

I don't see how they can avoid this, as this usually is a result of 
delayed mirror synchronization, i.e. mirrors do not update at the same time.

Regards
Ingemar




More information about the users mailing list