https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759
[EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |ASSIGNED Ever Confirmed| |1 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-16 10:49 ------- The chance of having dependencies of notes5clients being not seen by urpmi by a --auto-select are tight. I have to repeat urpmi didn't check all dependencies but it may see broken when trying to upgrade package (because it check when a package is upgraded if using package will not loose dependencies, so why it may find there unresolved one). I have to check if this check are not global and be limited to broken dependencies. I want to answer on this bug previously about the use of a configuration files saying what is Provided, Conflicting and Required on a global status. It may resolve correctly your problem and some others too. I like this solution but It may need to hack rpmlib (I didn't check currently). ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] description: I am pasting in the email I sent to the Cooker list as I have only received one response from MandrakeSoft employees so far. ------------------------------------------------------------- I noticed that urpmi now tries to figure out all the unresolved dependencies on your system just like how apt does. I think this is extremely annoying behavior and I wish I was disabled by default. Justification: I have an application, SuperFoo, installed. It has a dependency on IBM's Java Runtime Environment (JRE). I need to use Sun's JRE because IBM hasn't bothered to release one that likes gcc 3.2 yet. And I know from my usage that it works fine with Sun's JRE. SuperFoo is a proprietary application so I don't have the source for it. Having to repackage it every release to remove the stupid hard requirement on IBM-JDK is extremely annoying. So I can install SuperFoo with straight rpm -Uvh --nodeps. Life is good and I can use SuperFoo. Now being the good Cooker person that I am, I do 'urpmi --auto-select' to sync with the latest packages. The latest urpmi says "Hey, we have unresolved dependencies! I MUST uninstall SuperFoo!", even though SuperFoo has nothing to do with all the other packages that I will be updating. I hope you see where this is painful. Every time I want to update Cooker, it will try to uninstall SuperFoo even though there is no reason to. Previously I have bragged to Debian users that urpmi is smarter because it only concerns itself with the packages that are being installed/upgraded. Please tell me there is hope that urpmi can be made smart again? -------------------------------------------------------------- To this François Pons responded: Ok, I hope I will not hurt sensibility but urpmi doesn't care if unrelated dependencies are unresolved. *BUT* urpmi when resolving related dependencies (and related should be understanded in the very large part) it may add unresolved dependencies. -------------------------------------------------------------- So my question is why would this unrelated unresolved dependency be added? Or using the example from above, why does it want to remove SuperFoo which has an unresolved dependency on IBM-JDK even though nothing else that I am installing/upgrading has any requirement on IBM-JDK (or anything Java related for that matter). Thanks.