I've been playing aroun with Foresight Linux a little bit and I have a question about hte update mechanism that maybe someone here can answer.

to update the system you run sudo conary updateall which I tried but it kept giving me a dependency error. I tried adding the --resolve flag to the command but no go.

I ended up erasing the packages with the conflict. (lm_sensors, net-snmp, hplip) had to be removed before it would update. This can't possibly be the correct way to get around whatever issue was causing problems.

There is nothing jumping out at me from the conary man page about the proper way to get it to skip those packages and update the rest, or get it to work out a suitable resolution.

so does anyone have a clue what the right way to handle this issue in Foresight would be ?

Thanks for your insight

What version of Foresight are you using? Can you also check what version of Conary you are using? Find out with the following command:


After you've answered those questions, I may be able to help you

I'll take a look at the versions when I get home tonight.

after the failure I did a: sudo conary update conary to update the package manager before running the updateall again

after removing the three packages the update succeeded.
After updating, I reinstalled those three packages with no problem whatsoever..

either way I'll collect the info you asked for tonight, because I really am curious.

Thanks

conary q conary --full-versions
conary=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//2-qa/2.0.21-1-0.1

conary rq conary
2.0.22-1-0.1

cat /etc/distro-release
Foresight Linux
(I was expecting a version number here)


install DVD says Foresight 2.0