Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag 28 März 2008 schrieb Michal Marek:
> Michal Marek wrote:
> > JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > Coolo suggested we might need to define some core packages that don't
> > > use the new payload system so upgrades work, but it seems like it yast
> > > potentially we'd have to upgrade rpm first and then upgrade the packages
> > > even if we fix that.
> >
> > zypp could be "smart" :) and try to update to latest available rpm if it
> > sees a package with unsatisfied rpmlib dependency.
>
> The problem might be that zypp can't know whether the install will
> succeed before actually updating to new rpm :(

The rpmlib dependencies need to be provided by the rpm. So it should know 
pretty well. The problem is if rpm itself requires it.

Greetings, Stephan

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