[PATCH setup 00/14] Use libsolv, solve all our problems... (WIP)
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Dec 13 17:31:00 GMT 2017
On 12/5/2017 9:32 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> It seems we're missing something to actually apply the default solution,
> so "accept default solutions" makes no changes, at the moment. (looks
> like we have to do this ourselves with solver_take_solution() ?)
I've just looked at this again, and I'm not sure what's happening.
Here's what I tried: I had two installed packages A and B, where A
requires B. I tried to uninstall B and got the expected problem report
telling me that A requires B. The solutions presented were
1. Uninstall A.
2. Don't uninstall B.
On the surface, it would seem that libsolv chose 2 by default, because
it returned an empty transaction list. This was reflected in the log
and was also clear when I selected 'Back'.
On the other hand, maybe libsolv's default was to do nothing, and it's
just a coincidence that this coincided with solution 2. This could have
tricked me into thinking that libsolv chose a default solution.
> Also, in the dependency problem report, we should identify which of the
> possible solutions is the default one, so it's clearer what "accept
> default solutions" is going to do.
Is there in fact a default solution? I skimmed through problems.c in
the libsolv sources, and I didn't see any mention of a default solution.
Maybe we have to deal with this situation ourselves. Whenever a problem
involves a missing dependency, we could choose as default solution the
one that installs/keeps the dependent package, as is currently done.
Ken
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