On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 10:38 -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 10/12/2017 05:34 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > In this case there's an even worse consequence; if you do attempt to
> > update to nss 3.33.0 without nspr 4.17.0 dnf will 'skip' *most* of the
> > nss packages (as it notices that they are missing dependencies), but it
> > *will* install nss-softokn-freebl . With this mix of packages (most of
> > nss at 3.32.0, but nss-softokn-freebl at 3.33.0), nss and anything that
> > depends on it just fails to work at all - e.g. curl and dnf...so that's
> > an extremely bad outcome.
> 
> Then isn't this a packaging bug?  They currently use ">=" requirements,
> but if a greater version doesn't work, shouldn't they be "="?

Well, there's *additionally* probably a packaging bug, yeah: nss-
softokn-freebl should be more strictly tied to the other packages.
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