[opensuse] Changing Yast behaviour
I decided to try out mplayer2. There was also mplayer2-as-mplayer which adds "mplayer" symbolic links to mplayer2. When installing these two, I noticed that get_iplayer which has a mplayer dependency was also removed. When I tried to reinstall get_iplayer not only did it fail because it could not find mplayer but all other successful downloads where not installed also. The action of Yast not to install all other packages because one fails I find extremely annoying. Is there a way the to counter this action? I can understand why some may think this is a good idea but I honestly hate it. If one program fails to download it is enough just to be informed about it so that I can seek a solution but to stop all other installations whether or not they are related to the failed download is really not necessary and irritating. I have managed to install get_iplayer without mplayer and it works fine. However, everytime I start Yast it nags that there is a dependency issue with get_iplayer. Is there a way to turn this off too? Any help on how to change the behaviour of Yast would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi, On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 08:00:29AM +0100, eddie wrote:
I have managed to install get_iplayer without mplayer and it works fine. However, everytime I start Yast it nags that there is a dependency issue with get_iplayer. Is there a way to turn this off too?
Any help on how to change the behaviour of Yast would be greatly appreciated.
I guess the packages are from packman, right? I think you should report this issue to them then. As far as I know there is no way to tell YaST to ignore a certain dependecy. Maybe you take a look at the command line tool zypper which is not repeatedly complaining about an unsatisfied dependency. -- Bye, Stephan Barth SUSE Technical Services - SUSE LINUX GmbH GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuremberg Register at suse.com/susecon - Follow us at twitter.com/susecon12 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 15:52:04 Stephan Barth wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 08:00:29AM +0100, eddie wrote:
I have managed to install get_iplayer without mplayer and it works fine. However, everytime I start Yast it nags that there is a dependency issue with get_iplayer. Is there a way to turn this off too?
Any help on how to change the behaviour of Yast would be greatly appreciated.
I guess the packages are from packman, right? I think you should report this issue to them then.
As far as I know there is no way to tell YaST to ignore a certain dependecy. Maybe you take a look at the command line tool zypper which is not repeatedly complaining about an unsatisfied dependency.
Thanks Stephan I appreciate that some issues are not specifically "opensuse's" but is there a way to set Yast to complete the installation of packages which have been downloaded successfully and ignore any failed downloads. That is one of the main things that irritate me. Yast did not use to work that way, and as long as Yast reports failures that should be adequate. There is no need to block installation of those packages which have been successfully downloaded. Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2012-07-19 at 16:04 +0100, eddie wrote:
I appreciate that some issues are not specifically "opensuse's" but is there a way to set Yast to complete the installation of packages which have been downloaded successfully and ignore any failed downloads. That is one of the main things that irritate me. Yast did not use to work that way, and as long as Yast reports failures that should be adequate. There is no need to block installation of those packages which have been successfully downloaded.
I think it is a feature, some installs can not be done unless all the packages of the bunch are available. It depends on how the packagers define their packages, not really on yast. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAId28ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XwSgCghmcMLXD5JlYH0JTW5oLBpOBb m4wAnjyXI6l37hFfCz0rr0iOAze+bDih =Fn9G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 23:08:53 Carlos E. R. wrote:
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I appreciate that some issues are not specifically "opensuse's" but is there a way to set Yast to complete the installation of packages which have been downloaded successfully and ignore any failed downloads. That is one of the main things that irritate me. Yast did not use to work that way, and as long as Yast reports failures that should be adequate. There is no need to block installation of those packages which have been successfully downloaded. I think it is a feature, some installs can not be done unless all the
On Thursday, 2012-07-19 at 16:04 +0100, eddie wrote: packages of the bunch are available. It depends on how the packagers define their packages, not really on yast.
If that were the case then I wouldn't mind but I don't think so. I had forty plus updates and because get_iplayer failed not one of the others were installed even though they downloaded successfully. That to me is just plain silly (or bad programming/design). I've noticed it before and had to go back and deselect the failed package in order to get the rest to install. Having deselected the failed package all the others get installed. So why can't YaST just install the others and report the failed ones; that's what I don't understand. Anyway, rather than debate the wisdom or folly of such a design, I was just wondering if there was an option somewhere that would allow for packages that had been successfully downloaded to be installed whether or not there were failed downloads. (I can understand and it makes sense when there are failed dependencies or system-critical packages but not a wholesale block on installations regardless of how trivial the failed packages are. Hey, but then again, maybe I am wrong and Carlos, you are correct.). Thanks Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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