[Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

Sat Jan 7 12:43:09 CET 2012

07.01.2012 13:39, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas:
+> Of course this is one way to find bugs in packages. But what about the
+> documented (in German) case where
+>   - after fresh installation, reboot (ok) and updates right after
+> installation I was presented with a list of more than 100 "orphans".
+>   - I ran 'urpme --auto-orphans' and rebooted
+>   - several system services (which started successfully after
+> installation) refused to start now because of missing files
+>
+> Of course urpmi was not the culprit because it only checks
+> dependencies. But that did matter in that situation. The auto-orphans
+> function obviously listed packages which may have no dependencies but
+> are needed by the system. That's why I do not complain about urpmi but
+> about the whole function. As long as this function is only based on
+> package dependencies it is not safe to use it.
+Did you choose custom install and unchecked some options? Or did you use LiveCD maybe? 
+Anyway.. function is not to blame. Next time copy those packages that are going to be 
+uninstalled. And they can be rechecked. Which are needed and why they get orphaned.
+
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+Sander
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