Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (148 mails)

[josef reidiner <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Andres napsal(a):
> On Tue, Mar 18, Josef Reidinger wrote:
>
>   
> > For programmers that uses libzypp it mean, that they must (if support
> > this action in callback) catch from commit call exception, disable this
> > package instalation for solver, rerun solver and try again commit (of
> > course with any user responses if really want new plan or if not
> > possible install without this package then some as do standard).
> >     
>
> Something like this is easily doable once we separate download and 
> install.
>
> Downloading packages into a chache we can easily stop at any time 
> (after the first error, collecting all errors).
>
> We can handle these errors by disabling packages as well as complete 
> repositories. We can even refresh or change repositories.
>
>
>
> But once we are in commit (actually installing packages) we have to be 
> carefull. The system might be in an inconsistent state and if we don't 
> have enough system to rescan the rpm database and recreate the solv file, 
> we are stuck. I somewhat dislike to suggest that it's save and easy to 
> abort the running transaction and try soemthing else.
>
>   
Yes, you are right. Unrolling package that installed before failing one 
can be really horrible.
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