[mythtv-users] OT: Upgrade to Mysql 5.0

[Sam Varshavchik]

R. G. Newbury writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> R. G. Newbury writes:
>> 
>> 
>> --force is not a "fix", for a dependency issue.  It's a workaround for a 
>> known packaging bug.
> 
> Yadda yadda... if it was a 'known packaging bug' then mysql etc would 
> have fixed their package. I strongly suspect that --force is there 
> PRECISELY to allow the user to install one package where somebody has 
> failed to properly set up another package.
> 
>> You do not have any packaging bugs.  Your package is fine, it's just not 
>> compatible with the rest of the software that you have installed.  And 
>> using --force is not going to fix it.
> 
> I do not believe that for an instant. There are packaging bugs and yum 
> is not able to handle all of them.

That's fine.  Although I've been building RPM packages for almost ten years, 
and understand exactly what /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires and 
/usr/lib/rpm/find-provides do, and why those dependencies matter, I guess 
there's something new to learn every day.

>                                        And sometimes smart isn't. The 
> 'problem' is that yum insists a bunch of modules and connectors must be 
> removed before it will allow version 5 to be installed instead of 
> version 4, when the modules and connectors will work with both versions.

Yum was right.

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