Bug 622679
| Summary: | yum should offer some solutions to users in case it cannot resolve dependencies | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Praveen Arimbrathodiyil <parimbra> |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Seth Vidal <skvidal> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 13 | CC: | ffesti, james.antill, llim, maxamillion, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-08-10 15:01:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Example output from aptitude in debian
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil: Depends: libmono-corlib2.0-cil (>= 2.6.3) but 2.4.4~svn151842-3 is to be installed.
Depends: libmono-system2.0-cil (>= 2.6.3) but 2.4.4~svn151842-3 is to be installed.
gnome-desktop-environment: Conflicts: gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs but 0.10.30-1 is to be installed.
libmono-addins0.2-cil: Depends: libmono-corlib2.0-cil (>= 2.6.3) but 2.4.4~svn151842-3 is to be installed.
Depends: libmono-system2.0-cil (>= 2.6.3) but 2.4.4~svn151842-3 is to be installed.
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6-amd64: Depends: linux-latest-modules-2.6.30-2-amd64 which is a virtual package.
gcj-jre-headless: Conflicts: java-gcj-compat-headless (< 1.0.80-6) but 1.0.80-5.1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) java-gcj-compat
2) java-gcj-compat-headless
3) libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
4) libmono-addins0.2-cil
5) openoffice.org-gcj
6) tomboy
7) virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6-amd64
Keep the following packages at their current version:
8) gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
9) gthumb recommends gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (10000)
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Presenting users with impossible-to-decipher optons seems like a bad choice and if we have a 'default' behavior that we can use we should just use that and drop the option. Someone can write a plugin to enhance options available to compare_providers() but prompting the user like the aptitude example is just a good way to confuse users and damage systems. |
Description of problem: aptitude in debian has this nice option when it cannot satisfy all depndencies with current settings policies, it presents a user with options which he can say yes or no, like do you want to remove some packages, do you want to upgrade some packages... It is very useful. It would be good if yum offered a similar feature. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install ffmpeg-libs from rpmfusion-free 2. do yum upgrade 3. Actual results: --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.6-2.fc13.x86_64 (rpmfusion-free-updates) Requires: libx264.so.83()(64bit) Available: x264-libs-0.0.0-0.27.20100130git3659b81.fc13.x86_64 (rpmfusion-free) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem x264-libs-0.0.0-0.96.20100522git69588a7.fc13.x86_64 is a duplicate with x264-libs-0.0.0-0.27.20100429gitd9db8b3.fc14.x86_64 Expected results: yum should offer to upgrade or remove ffmpeg-libs Additional info: