On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 10:18, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> > > > RedHat Linux is one of the last modern linux distributions not to
> > > > have a dependency tool like apt-get, urpmi or autopkg included in
> > > > the default intstallation.
> >
> > up2date has been available since 6.2 I believe. Do you even use Red Hat?
>
> up2date is not an appropriate tool for resolving dependencies.
I would have to agree here. The way up2date behaves when the
repository is 100% correct is wonderful, but the moment there
are missing dependencies or inconsistencies in the repository
the user will have to unselect packages by hand until things
work.
so I'm confused - what would you have it do when it can't find a
dependency in any of the provided repository?
Say for example some package needs libfoo.so.1.
Nothing provides that, up2date and yum and apt will all give you a big
"<shrug> I dunno, looks like you need something that provides
libfoo.so.1"
Is there another way of resolving this you can think of?
-sv