Distributions going smart & bugfixes?

[Grant McWilliams]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:

> Axel Thimm wrote:
>
>  But FWIW smart passes the dependency loops down to rpm 4.6.0 and
>> the latter doesn't complain.
>>
>
> Smart does complain (a little, in the logs) about the loops, though.
> Main reason being that dependency loops make the sorting hard to do.
>
> But doing a full "sys.exit(1)" might have been overdoing it a tad...
> Instead it will just abort sorting, and do them in the order given.
>
> --anders
>
> I haven't checked lately but smart would also downgrade/upgrade forever if
there was a loop where installing one package downgraded another. We'd only
see it once in a while and I remember a lot of discussion here but don't
remember what the result was. In our case it was effectively broken and I
disabled ksmarttray on all machines. Now it's "fixed" because the users
aren't tempted to upgrade/downgrade for days on end.  This was effectively
smart being smarter than yum but still the result was the same.


Grant McWilliams

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