rpmdb-redhat, rpmdb-Centos, etc..

[Aaron Hanson]

Hi All -

I've noticed that recent Redhat distros (RHEL5) and derivatives
(Centos5) seem to have stopped supplying resolution databases for the
'--aid' and '--redhatprovides' options. Does anybody have any insight
here? Where support for these options might be headed?

Thanks.

-Aaron

[seth vidal]

Post by Aaron Hanson
Hi All -
I've noticed that recent Redhat distros (RHEL5) and derivatives
(Centos5) seem to have stopped supplying resolution databases for the
'--aid' and '--redhatprovides' options. Does anybody have any insight
here? Where support for these options might be headed?

away.

rpm --aid's depsolving has a lot of issues on modern distributions and
packaging conventions. For the red hat-related distros (rhel, centos,
fedora) it will not be a recommended solution. I hope in the
not-so-distant future it will be removed altogether. If you want to do
depsolving use one of the rpm depsolvers: (yum, smart, apt, etc)

-sv

[Jeff Johnson]

Post by seth vidal

Post by Aaron Hanson
Hi All -
I've noticed that recent Redhat distros (RHEL5) and derivatives
(Centos5) seem to have stopped supplying resolution databases for the
'--aid' and '--redhatprovides' options. Does anybody have any insight
here? Where support for these options might be headed?

away.
rpm --aid's depsolving has a lot of issues on modern distributions and
packaging conventions. For the red hat-related distros (rhel, centos,
fedora) it will not be a recommended solution. I hope in the
not-so-distant future it will be removed altogether. If you want to do
depsolving use one of the rpm depsolvers: (yum, smart, apt, etc)

You claim "lot of issues" and summarize "will not be a recommended solution"
for Red Hat distros.

Would you care to share any details? I'm unaware of "issues" that cannot be
solved,
and it's certainly useful to display package names that resolve dependencies
whether one ones to automate installing those packages with --aid (or not).

Or perhaps I should wait until the primary.sqlite yum download reaches 30Mb
instead of the ~6Mb currently seen on every Fedora 9 yum invocation with
updated metadata.

73 de Jeff

Post by seth vidal
-sv
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