Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (26 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:06:06PM -0600, Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty wrote:
> I have jre-1.6.0 package installed and one package jre-links package 
> installed which 
> requires "jre  >=  1.6.0" . Now I want to install jre-1.5.0 package. First I 
> want to do dependency
> resolution using satsolver and then install the package using 'rpm -i' 
> command so that
> it can install jre-1.5.0 along side jre-1.6.0. But in the dependency 
> resolution phase
> satsolver tells me to remove jre-links package because it tries to replace 
> jre-1.6.0 with
> jre-1.5.0. 
>
> Normally install-only flag is set to 1 in the metadata when 'rpm -i' behavior 
>  is intended in stead
> of default 'rpm -U' behavior.

(I don't think "install-only" per package makes much sense, the user
normally configures it "per package name".)

> But does satsolver handle install-only flag during solving ?
> If no, then is there any plan to handle the flag ?
> If yes, then how do I set the flag for a solvable ?

You add SOLVER_NOOBSOLETES jobs to tell the solver that the
matched packages should be installed with '-i', not '-U'.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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