[gobolinux-users] Freshen couldn't better prepare update?
Isaac Dupree
isaacdupree at charter.net
Mon Jul 16 23:08:29 UTC 2007
Michael Homer wrote:
> Dependencies should be resolved before that point, and Compile's
> dependency-handling shouldn't ever be being used. That's why I want
> the output of plain `Freshen` to see how it's ordering things. Xorg
> should be listed ahead of everything that depends on it, or not at all
> if it's already up-to-date. If it's already up-to-date at the point
> something that requires it is Compiled, Compile should see that it's
> met and not try to install it again.
>
> Regardless of how they're ordered, Compile is explicitly instructed
> not to resolve dependencies, so it shouldn't be prompting you for it
> at all (it's both in --batch mode and with --no-dependencies). There
> may be a Compile bug making it ignore those flags, although I wasn't
> able to trigger it when I did a couple of experiments.
I remember Compile in Freshen asking me that sort of question for some
things - can't remember specifics, sorry - in 2.2.2 or 2.2.4.
Isaac
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