Hi, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:53, Dag Wieers<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:33 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: >>> On the other hand, I think you need to talk to the yum developers >>> too. Since there is no good reason for blocking all updates if one >>> dependency is missing. >> >> Is there some technical reasons of not fixing the dependency resolution >> code, do they reject patches or have another view of the problem, did >> you actually met him offline? It's just over my head... > > I don't know exactly. Fact is that if you consider mixing repositories, the > chances of having dependency errors become even higher, so a depsolver that > can handle it better would actually help in making repositories compatible. > (with apt it is easier to mix, but still not completely transparant)
yum has evolved a lot recently, and its new "plugin" architecture seems to be very powerful (see things as "priorities" or "fastestmirror" which look to me as core behaviours of yum that are being changed by plugins). I don't know how the internals work, but would it maybe be possible to write a plugin to yum that would handle skipping packages with dependency errors and going on with the other updates? Filipe _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
