[maemo-developers] hildon-application-manager doesn't work reliable with large dependency stack

[From: Bjoern Ricks]

2010/6/17 Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net <g%2B770 at cobb.uk.net>>

> On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:45:12 Bjoern Ricks wrote:
> > hildon-application-manager complains about conflicts with already
> installed
> > packages which should be updated too. Also this behaviour isn't reliable
> > and reproducable. On some devices it may work. It is ALWAYS possible to
> > install all new packages without any complains with apt-get upgrade.
>
>
> It sounds like you are hitting the HAM protection mechanisms.  Basically,
> HAM
> tries to prevent packages being updated from repositories other than the
> one
> which installed it.  In fact, it isn't as simple as that, as HAM has a
> system
> of repository priorities based on signing keys.  But the bottom line is
> that,
> based on which repositories are involved, HAM will not allow some package
> upgrades which apt-get will be perfectly happy to do.
>

The packages are from the same repository (
http://files.kolab.org/local/maemo) but maybe from different sections. Maybe
that is also a problem then.
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