[gobolinux-users] Freshen couldn't better prepare update?

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:33:19 +0200, Daniele Maccari <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:

> rubisher ha scritto:
>> Hello Michael,
>>
>> 2 or 3 weeks ago I launch the upgrade of kde with:
>>
>> # Freshen -U KDE-Utils KDE-Libs KDE-PIM KDE-Graphics KDE-Multimedia
>>
>> (Freshen release 2.2.2-r1)
>>
>> Among dependencies there was new Xorg which is also a dependency of other kde's dependencies, I so stopped to count the
>> number of time Freshen asked me if I want to upgrade Xorg even thought I already accepted at the first time.
>> And not enough, each time I accepted this upgrade, it downloaded again and again because at the end each install it removed
>>   the package better then waiting the end of Freshen process?
>>
>> Did I missed important option which would make operation smoother?
>>
>>
> I had the same question in my mind some time ago. The fact that the same
> happens with Compile too (afaik) let me believe this could be a Compile
> related issue rather than a Freshen related one, also considering that,
> again afaik, Freshen uses Compile and other Scripts do get his work done.
>
As rubisher stated that the file was removed after each install that points
to that it was a binary package that was beeing installed. For that
InstallPackage is used, however both Compile and InstallPackage should call
CheckDependencies, Compile before and InstallPackage before installation,
to check if dependencies is fullfilled unless they are called with
'--no-dependencies'. That would mean that neither Compile nor
InstallPackage would try to install an application if it already was
installed _successfully_. Some more output from Freshen/Compile/
InstallPackage would help track down this issue.

-- 
/Jonas

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