On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 13:59 +0100, Christopher Ross wrote: > On 24/08/17 13:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > The man page for dnf says: "Allow erasing of installed packages to > > resolve dependencies" (which is actually not as clear as it might be - > > would removing every package on the system resolve dependencies?). > > > > However that is consistent with what it did in your case. It removed FF > > because it couldn't update nspr, not "Because dnf wasn't able to update > > Firefox to the best version it removed it instead", which is the phrase > > I was reacting to. > > I disagree. It could not install the updated Firefox because it depends > on a version of nspr that has not been released yet. Removing the > currently installed Firefox did not resolve any dependencies at all. At > best, that would imply that it needed to uninstall Firefox because it > was blocking the update of something else, which so far as I can tell is > not the case. > > Or, if that is the case, which packages in the current update DO depend > on the newest version of Firefox, which in turn depends on a package > that hasn't been released yet? Surely under your interpretation they > would have been removed too?
I think the exact meaning of the man-page phrase is unclear, so I for one can't tell if what happened is a bug or a feature. Either way, I'd suggest you file it as a bug against dnf and maybe someone will react. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
