https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335510 Summary: Don't ask the user about solving dependencies while upgrading from one distversion to another Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: geroxp@web.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Recently I had to help a friend of mine solving boot problems with his openSuSE 10.3 operating system. It turned out that while upgrading from 10.2 he was asked about a lot unresolved dependencies and choosed to delete packages rather then upgrade the package (yast said something about that would change the "provider" of the package). So he deleted "hal". Since hal is absolutely necessary for openSuSE to startup his system wouldn't boot anymore (it said that /dev/hda could not be found). Also in conjunction with that "solved" dependency issues grub was not upgraded properly resulting in a useless entry in menu.lst where an "initrd" was set that doesn't even exist. Well, to cut a long story short: The novice user should not be bothered with such questions like if he/she wants "to upgrade a package that would change the provider" or such weird questions that the average user simply does not understand. Please read the following comment that really gets this to the point: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/493 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.