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

[Sander Lepik]

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