[mythtv-users] FC4: 0.18 ---> 0.19

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:41, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:08:15AM -0500, Dylan R. Semler wrote:
> > Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:07:20AM -0500, Dylan R. Semler wrote:
> > >>Just in case it comes up again, the best way i've found to only upgrade
> > >>the myth package through yum is
> > >>yum upgrade myth\* --enablerepo=atrpms.
> > >>This should pick up everything.
> > >
> > >No, this is breaking systems, you have neither libmyth in it, nor any
> > >of the several dozens of myth dependencies.
> >
> > Sorry for the misinformation.  Shouldn't yum resolve the dependencies
> > though?
>
> No, it would only do so for missing packages (e.g. a new dependency
> introduced by the latest mythtv package), not for such that exist, but
> are outdated.

To clarify, I'm fairly certain that in the case of only upgrading MythTV, 'yum 
upgrade myth\*' actually does basically work, if you're moving from one 
version to another (i.e. 0.18.1 to 0.19), including pulling in the updated 
libmyth and any new dependencies. However, it won't work if you're moving 
from say 0.19-120 to 0.19-121 though, as the libmyth dependency of say 
mythtv-frontend-0.19-121 would already be satisfied by libmyth-0.19-120. One 
could craft an upgrade line that would also pull in an updated libmyth, but I 
believe the point Axel is making is that deps on libraries outside of myth 
itself might also be met by older versions, but to get optimal functionality, 
you really need the latest ones ATrpms provides, so don't do selective 
updates.

For the pending guide update to FC5, I'm more likely than not going to switch 
over to smart. While I like the idea of using the distro-provided tool (yum), 
its still got some issues with its depsolver. I'm hoping that once I'm 
settled in at Red Hat, I'll be able to spend some work hours on the yum code 
to help improve it... :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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