On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 09:03 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote:
On 23/08/17 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 08/23/2017 08:40 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > # dnf upgrade
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Wed Aug 23 04:43:05 2017.
> > Dependencies resolved.
> >
> > Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package
> > firefox-55.0.1-1.fc26.x86_64
> > - nothing provides nspr >= 4.16.0 needed by firefox-55.0.2-1.fc26.x86_64
>
>
> nspr is still in updates-testing. If you want you can run "dnf --enablerepo
> updates-testing update firefox"
Thank you! I have just done that. Because dnf wasn't able to update
Firefox to the best version it removed it instead! I assume this is a
result of the combination --best --allowerasing which I generally use.
I've never had it just remove things completely leaving no version
installed though :(
That doesn't look right. AFAIK "--allowerasing" will delete a package
that is blocking something else from updating, but not otherwise. It
shouldn't remove a package just because it can't get the latest
version.
poc