At 6:24 AM +0200 7/15/05, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:30 -0700, Michael A. Peters 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. > >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. > >(Wild guess: I am inclined to think at least some of the >selinux-policy-target issues reported might originate from this issue). I hope this comes to the attention of the yum developers. Perhaps you could submit a Bugzilla RFE? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
