[issue18] upgrade cycling between two sets of packages

[agforsyth at Labix Tracker]

agforsyth <agforsyth at gmail.com> added the comment:

A bit more info:

Concerning the directfb / mplayer conflict: The repo that I had
directfb from updated to an equivalent version as the one from the
other repo, so then the upgraded mplayer matched an updated directfb,
so both versions were newest so there was no more conflict.

I also am able to reproduce an equivalent conflict to the directfb /
mplayer one with gstreamer / gstreamer-tools which existed in two
different repos. One updated it's gstreamer-tools from a lower to
higher version than the other repo, and so I get cycles between the
two repos versions.

This makes it seem that if ever two repositories have incompatible
versions of packages (and one of their dependancies) and one repo has
a higher version of one, while the other has a higher version of the
other, smart will ALWAYS upgrade one package and downgrade the other,
no matter which set you're at.

I think correct behavior in this situation would be to report the
conflict and do nothing. Maybe have an option to upgrade that enables
these but have them disabled by default?

On 10/10/05, Adam Forsyth <agforsyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wow.. sounds interesting.
> >
> > Are you able to put your /var/lib/smart/ and /var/lib/rpm somwehere so that I
> > may try to reproduce the problem locally?  This would really help.
>
> Ok, I've posted them at:
>
> http://71.194.37.86:88/mythweb/varlibrpmsmart.tar.bz2
>
> For size reasons, I didn't include the ungzipped copies of the
> *filelists.xml and *primary.xml files, just the gzipped versions, from
> /var/lib/smart/channels. The file is still about 32 megabytes. It will
> take probably 15 minutes to download. If you fire me off an email when
> you start downloading it, I'll make sure I'm not doing any other
> uploading / massive downloading at that time.
>

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