Bug 46884 - Doesn't cope with RH 7.0+Ximian Gnome sensibly
Summary: Doesn't cope with RH 7.0+Ximian Gnome sensibly
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-01 19:50 UTC by Telsa Gwynne
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-03 19:26:40 UTC
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Description Telsa Gwynne 2001-07-01 19:50:05 UTC
_Still_ continuing the saga of the text mode (not expert) upgrade of
a Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K from RH7.0+bits+Ximian 1.4...

Reached "Checking package dependencies" without any opportunity
to customise the package selection. It had a think and then told
me:

Package
	Suggestion	Size
something
none
	whatever
		^^^^

I got half a dozen packages which anaconda couldn't suggest
associated dependencies for. They were all from Ximian Gnome
1.4: ammonite, gnome-games, gnucash(I believe there was a guile
issue with these two), and some others.

It gave me three options: install suggested dependencies, ignore
suggested dependencies, or don't upgrade the packages with dodgy
deps.

Did you know that you can pick the first, and it will cheerfully
go off and try to do the upgrade, regardless of the dependency
problems.

I wass dropped straight into the upgrade from this with no
opportunity to add or remove anything.

On completing the upgrade, I had a quick look in /tmp/upgrade.log
and tons and tons of Gnome stuff had not been upgrades:
rpm -qa | grep ximian showed me dozens and dozens of Ximian rpms.
I don't know whether they were epoched, or whether this was an
anaconda error, or what.

In addition, Ximian has a few extra packages such as doorman ("welcome
to Gnome, would you like to register?") which may cause trouble if left
lying about. Not sure what to do about those.

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2001-07-02 15:35:43 UTC
I have half a mind to simply refuse to upgrade a machine with Ximian GNOME
installed.


Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-07-13 20:34:50 UTC
No matter who has what kind of mind (or what portions :-) we need to have some
resolution for this.  Ximian with Red Hat is just too appealing to the masses so
we HAVE to have an answer.

Comment 3 Glen Foster 2001-07-13 22:16:13 UTC
This defect considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2001-08-03 19:26:35 UTC
We have to address this - either we technically cannot support upgrading all the
various incarnations of the Ximian GNOME packages, or else we come up with a way
to gut it through the upgrade and then tell them they are on their own to get
GNOME working again.



Comment 5 Matt Wilson 2001-08-06 22:28:05 UTC
I've added a large warning dialog when we find ximian or helixcode or eazel rpms
on the system.



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