On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 06:24:35AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > yum has never messed up my system. > Then let me show you a rather harmless example of yum messing up a > system: > # yum install eclipse > # yum remove libgcj > During the "yum remove libgcj" some %postun scripts fail. This causes > yum and rpm to leave packages with broken dependencies behind on the > system. What's happening exactly in this example? Yum libgcj's postun scripts fail, so it's been removed, but the transaction bombs out so some things which depend on it aren't removed? What *should* yum do in such a case, and how should it do it? (Non-rhetorical question!) > Most users won't notice this, until a side effect of these broken deps > hits or they are using apt-get, because, unlike yum, "apt-get" detects > the broken deps in the system and requests you to fix them. It might be a good idea to periodically run "package-cleanup --problems" (from yum-utils). Maybe yum-utils should come with a cron job that does that weekly or so by default..... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
