[Mageia-dev] vbox/vboxadditions conflicts question

Thu Mar 24 21:52:53 CET 2011

Frank Griffin a écrit :
+>
+> On 03/24/2011 12:41 PM, andre999 wrote:
+>> Frank Griffin a écrit :
+>>>
+>>> Is there an rpm or urpmq query
+>>> that will highlight conflicts between installed packages on a system ?
+>>> For example, if I installed dkms-virtualbox and then installed
+>>> dkms-vboxadditions with --force, is there a query which would report
+>>> that these two are in conflict ?
+>>>
+>> good idea.
+>>
+>> Also, it seems that when a conflict is reported, it should list the
+>> applications (and versions) it finds to be in conflict.
+>> It is _really_ frustrating to have these anonymous conflicts, when
+>> rpm/urpm must know what it is finding in conflict.
+>>
+>
+> I was hoping this was already possible. If it's not, I'll enter an
+> enhancement request. Could some rpm/urpmq guru confirm one way or the
+> other, please ?
+
+I was thinking of installs in rpmdrake (under mdv).
+Sometimes it says that a package can't be installed -- if I remember 
+correctly, because of conflicts -- but doesn't give the blocker.
+
+If I try to install the package directly (from console or Nautilus) 
+often I get more info.  Sometimes I have found circular 
+depends/conflicts, so I have had to use --force to work around the problem.
+
+If it is an upgrade, sometimes uninstalling the old package (with 
+rpmdrake), then installing the new, works.  (But it is not always 
+possible to uninstall without uninstalling a lot of other packages.)
+
+-- 
+André
+