We've seen similar effects with IPK packages and opkg, but the problem then
isn't so much the package manager, but it's just that some packages don't
upgrade properly when bunched together with some others. For example, two
packages A and B which individually upgrade just fine, but if you try to
upgrade them both, something in their pre/post-install/remove actions messes
things up and causes one or both of them to fail.
Also, things like upgrading network components while using ssh to start the
upgrade, or upgrading parts of the package manager can also cause strange
upgrade problems.
I doubt there's some magic "maximum number of packages" in any package manager.
On 28-05-16 21:16, Darcy Watkins wrote:
Hi,
In my project, we have exceeded 700 packages and have run into numerous issues
using smart with rpm handling large transactions on the target (e.g. update
from a non-PR service build to a PR-service build resulting in all RPMs being
updated, though most are just version/release 'bumped' by the PR service).
Before I dig too deep, I figured I would see if anyone recognizes this
signature as a known issue.
1. Are there any hard coded limits to number of packages that can be handled
in a smart/rpm transaction? (Particularly around 700)?
2. Are there known issues related to when 'smart' updates itself and/or 'rpm'?
Daisy branch
Layerscape (ARM) architecture
Kernel 3.19 (yocto-linux + BSP patches)
Installing on ext3 rootfs
Building on CentOS7
All appeared to work fine until recently when a bunch of added kernel modules
and other firmware packages were added, which makes me wonder about a magic
limit of 700.
Thanks in advance for your insights.
Regards,
Darcy
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