ekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
1) Recalculate the dependancy tree at that point, leaving out the file(s)I favor this option strongly. Any of the other solutions add dependencies that you didn't have, and thus make things considerably more complicated. Recovery from this option is also straightforward--install the missing bits.
that could not be read and their dependancies.
It becomes tricky, however, if there is a circular dependency and one of the two packages is already installed correctly. (If RPM allows circular dependencies at all...) I suppose the next step then would be the removal of the other package and all dependent packages.
Alan