questions on package management

2013-07-12 Thread lee
Hi, imagine you have the following: package A, depends on C, installed package B, depends on C, not installed package C, installed All the packages are version 1. After a while, you install package B, and in the meantime, package B has been updated to version 2 so that it now depends on versi

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Hi, imagine you have the following: package A, depends on C, installed package B, depends on C, not installed package C, installed All the packages are version 1. After a while, you install package B, and in the meantime, package B has been updated to vers

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:11:20 +0200 lee wrote: > Hi, > > imagine you have the following: > > > package A, depends on C, installed > package B, depends on C, not installed > package C, installed > > > All the packages are version 1. After a while, you install package B, > and in the meantime,

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread lee
"Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: > On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: >> Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of >> package A installed at the same time, like version 1 from Fedora 17 and >> version 2 from Fedora 18. Imagine this package A provides a file >> '/bin/ls'.

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread lee
Kevin Fenzi writes: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:11:20 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> imagine you have the following: >> >> >> package A, depends on C, installed >> package B, depends on C, not installed >> package C, installed >> >> >> All the packages are version 1. After a while, you ins

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:27:52 +0200 lee wrote: > Assuming that package A doesn't work with the more recent version of > package C? Right, that was my assumption. If it does, then it would just update them all. ...snip... > Yes, this situation was the result of an upgrade that didn't finish. >

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package A installed at the same time, like version 1 from Fedora 17 and version 2 from Fedora 18. Imagine this package A p

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread lee
"Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: > On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: >> "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: >> >>> On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package A installed at the same time, like version 1 from Fedora 17 and

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread lee
Kevin Fenzi writes: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:27:52 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Yes, this situation was the result of an upgrade that didn't finish. >> Are you saying that 'yum list installed' doesn't really tell you what >> is actually installed and you need to use 'rpm -V' instead? >> >> What are

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 07:42 PM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package A installed at the same time, like version 1