On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:35 AM Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 2019-06-27, Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Default_Best > > > >== Summary == > > Currently, DNF prefers clean dependency resolution over package > > updates; a package (almost) silently won't get updated to a newer > > version if the new version has dependency problems. DNF will be > > changed to prefer updates and fail if they have dependency resolution > > issues, while the failure has a temporal or permanent workaround hint > > for users who want to use the older behavior. > > > This will also apply to DNF in Koji. And that will complicate > bootstrapping Perl ecosystem. We will probably cope with the change by > adding another step to the process of boostrapping Perl. > > Nevertheless I have a question whether the "best" strategy applies to > package NEVRAs only or if it also applies to Provides and Requires. E.g. > if a > > package A provides FOO = 1 > > and a > > package B provides FOO = 2, > > will installing FOO insist on installing package B or will it keep > freedom to choose between A and B? > If you request Package A you will always get package A. If you will request package in lover version, you will get the package in requested version. Jaroslav > > -- Petr > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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