[mythtv-users] Partial updates considered *extremely* harmful (was: Protocol mismatch problem and ongoing GUI colours problem)

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Tue Oct 3 22:31:19 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:11:52PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Clyde Stubbs wrote:
> > 3) the dependencies amongst the packages don't distinguish between different
> >    builds of 0.20
> >   
> take it up with Axel

Nope, see below.

> > 5) finally, I realized I had done
> >
> > 		yum upgrade myth\*
> >
> >    which didn't pull in the new build of libmyth-0.20 - but the older builds
> >   (using protocol 30) are incompatible with the newer ones.

This is selective/partial upgrading, something that ATrpms and in fact
no repo in the world supports. Please complain to whoever gave you the
idea of safe upgrades by using selective/partial upgrading.

3/4 of bug reports at ATrpms these days are because people think that
yum install foo* or --include/--exclude statements are a wise thing to
do. It isn't. It just creates bugs itself, bogus bug reports, steals
time from developers, packagers and users for ... well for nothing.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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