Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)

Radek Holy rholy at redhat.com
Wed Jul 22 08:22:13 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno at wolff.to>
> To: "Radek Holy" <rholy at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:20:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)
> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:32:58 -0400,
>   Radek Holy <rholy at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >Right, it still does not allow the depsolver to remove a capability at all.
> >It allows it only to replace a package which provides a required capability
> >with another package which provides it as well.
> 
> Can you describe this more precisely? Packages still provide themselves
> and the installed files and these don't seem to be locked down. Is this
> limited to explicit provides? And/or perhaps the automatic soname provides?
> 

Hm, it seems that I was too tired yesterday :( It really allows the solver to remove any package in order to fulfil the given request. Sorry for the noise :(

If it does not work in some cases, I believe we can collaborate with libsolv authors to find out the reason.

The most precise description is that it sets the SOLVER_FLAG_ALLOW_UNINSTALL flag which is described here: https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/blob/master/doc/libsolv-bindings.txt#L2024

Sorry :(
-- 
Radek HolĂ˝
Associate Software Engineer
Software Management Team
Red Hat Czech


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