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Re: [p2-dev] Update eagerness

Hi Thomas,

The latest objective function that ships in p2 targets stability:
if favors what is already installed to novelty.

So if the currently installed packages do satisfy the requirements, the features won't be updated.
See bug 259537 for details.

	Daniel

Le 8 mars 2010 à 08:25, Thomas Hallgren a écrit :

> 
> Hi,
> I have a problem that I'm uncertain how to interpret. I might be a bug in p2, or it might be me who misinterprets what's expected of the p2 resolver.
> 
> I have a feature A with a dependency to a bundle B. The dependency is expressed with a range [1.0.0,1.1.0). In my repository I first have:
> 
> A version 1.0.0
> B version 1.0.0
> 
> p2 installs it correctly into my runtime. At some point in time, my repository is changed to contain:
> 
> A version 1.0.1
> B version 1.0.1
> 
> The dependency from A 1.0.1 to B is left unchanged, i.e. the range is still [1.0.0,1.1.0). Now I ask p2 to update my runtime from this repository. I end up with:
> 
> A version 1.0.1
> B version 1.0.0
> 
> Looking only at this resolution, it is correct. The range permits A 1.0.1 to use B 1.0.0. What confuses me is that p2 finds a later version of B that is satisfied by the requirement but it chooses not to install it. Is that the way it's supposed to work?
> 
> - thomas
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