How to set a generic lock flag?

Space Case wormey at eskimo.com
Sat Sep 4 00:13:55 PDT 2010


On Sep 1,  8:32am, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= wrote:
>So gnome-gnames is being suggested as part of
>another install/upgrade ? (maybe use --explain)
>
>Something or other along the chain of dependencies
>should be pulling those @i586 dependencies in, no ?

OK, I have a couple of interesting cases.  One is where there's
a package conflict, it wants to install an i586 package.  Remove
the conflicting package, and the desire for i586 goes away.

The second is where an upgraded package wants a noarch lang
package. Attempt to upgrade the package, it wants to upgrade a
total of 57 packages and install 6.  Installing the lang package
itself results in also upgrading the base package, and nothing
else.

I still have some i586 packages that want to install, if you
want me to look at something else:
python-qt4-4.7.3-3.11 at i586
mozilla-js192-1.9.2.8-3.1 at i586
python-sip-4.10.2-3.1 at i586

Thanks,
Steve


Selected bits of smart output:
(I use ellipses (...) to denote removal of uninteresting text)

smart> upgrade libwebkitgtk-devel

Upgrading packages (2):
  libwebkitgtk-devel-1.3.3-2.2 at i586
    Upgrades:
      libwebkit-devel-1.2.3-0.1.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)
    Conflicts:
      libwebkit-devel-1.2.3-0.1.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)
  libwebkitgtk-devel-1.3.3-2.2 at x86_64
    Upgrades:
      libwebkitgtk-devel-1.3.3-2.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)
      libwebkit-devel-1.2.3-0.1.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)
    Conflicts:
      libwebkit-devel-1.2.3-0.1.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)

smart> remove libwebkit-devel
...

smart> upgrade libwebkitgtk-devel

Upgrading packages (1):
  libwebkitgtk-devel-1.3.3-2.2 at x86_64
    Upgrades:
      libwebkitgtk-devel-1.3.3-2.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)

---------------------

gateway:~ # smart query --installed | grep gnome-desktop
gnome-desktop-2.31.6-1.1 at x86_64
gnome-desktop-devel-2.31.6-1.1 at x86_64
libgnome-desktop-2-17-2.31.6-1.1 at x86_64
gateway:~ # smart --shell
...
smart> upgrade gnome-desktop
Upgrading packages (57):
...
  gnome-desktop-2.31.90-1.1 at x86_64
    Upgrades:
      gnome-desktop-2.31.6-1.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)
    Requires:
      bundle-lang-gnome-en-11.3-15.1 at noarch (installed)
    Required By:
      nautilus-2.31.90-1.1 at x86_64 (installed)
...
Installing packages (6):
  gnome-desktop-2.28.2-0.1.1 at i586
    Requires:
      gnome-desktop-lang-2.28.2-0.1.1 at noarch (installed)
    Required By:
      nautilus-2.31.90-1.1 at x86_64 (installed)
      gnome-desktop-lang-2.28.2-0.1.1 at noarch (installed)
  gnome-desktop-lang-2.28.2-0.1.1 at noarch
    Requires:
      gnome-desktop-2.28.2-0.1.1 at i586 (installed)
    Required By:
      libgnome-desktop-2-11-2.28.2-0.1.1 at x86_64 (installed)
      gnome-desktop-2.28.2-0.1.1 at i586 (installed)
...
Confirm changes? (Y/n): n

smart> install gnome-desktop-lang

Upgrading packages (1):
  gnome-desktop-2.31.90-1.1 at x86_64
    Upgrades:
      gnome-desktop-2.31.6-1.1 at x86_64 (upgraded)
    Requires:
      gnome-desktop-lang-2.31.90-1.1 at noarch (installed)
    Required By:
      gnome-desktop-lang-2.31.90-1.1 at noarch (installed)

Installing packages (1):
  gnome-desktop-lang-2.31.90-1.1 at noarch
    Requires:
      gnome-desktop-2.31.90-1.1 at x86_64 (installed)
    Required By:
      gnome-desktop-2.31.90-1.1 at x86_64 (installed)

863.8kB of package files are needed. 2.2MB will be used.

Confirm changes? (Y/n): y

smart> commit
...
(download and install happens)
...
smart> upgrade gnome-desktop
No interesting upgrades available!




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