On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
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
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Isn't that what the yum --skip-broken option does?
--skip-broken skip packages with depsolving problems
Available with RHEL 5, and recent Fedoras.
Tony
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