Swaret question
 

Does anybody know why if I have xfree86 in the exclude list, it will still update it if there is a dependancy problem?

Should it do that?

Thats werid, is your conf file setup to update to current?

yes it is.

gaim-0.76 apparently needs 4.4 to work so it does a dependancy check and installs 4.4. I have since turned off automatic dependancy checking.

odd. keep it if you use drivers that depend on your xfree86 version. if not, simply delete it from the exclude list.

Right now the dependency checking in SWareT does not work with the EXCLUDE list. Unfortunately this means what happens is what happened to you. That's why when it comes to dependencies I get them myself and let SWareT handle only simple search and installs.

A simple way to side-step this problem would be to avoid using the -a option. This way when swaret does the dependancy check it will list the packages needed and ask if you want them installed rather than doing it automatically. This has worked for me in the past.

Go into your swaret.conf and set dependency checking to:
dependency=0


I have a server that had the same problem--I only run the dependency once and a great while--saying no manualy to the packages that i dont want. From there I dont do any dependency tracking--it hasnt broken anything yet.

:)