ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Sat Feb 24 10:27:26 EST 2007
On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:02, Thomas Charron wrote:
> The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up,
> and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.
Ah, OK, thanks for the correction.
Still, if I hit that problem I'd go file a bug at
bugzilla.redhat.com. Granted I've had mixed success with that avenue.
Were I desperate I'd grab an SRPM and edit a SPEC file. That's
clearly not something most users know how to do.
This may be a disadvantage of the open source model in a way. I can
edit the SRPM and thus it doesn't get highest priority from the
developers. Apple had a parallel problem with a recent security (or
was it Airport driver?) update on the PPC architecture. They had it
fixed 3 hours later - at least in part because they had to.
For somebody whose CS isn't as rusty as mine - I think one should be
able to setup a dedicated process to watch a repo and build graphs of
dependencies and preemptively find this kind of breakage. Comments?
-Bill
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