On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 13:19, Ralph Angenendt<[email protected]> wrote: > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: >> 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? > > You mean like --skip-broken does on CentOS 5?
Exactly! Wouldn't this appease the anger caused by these upgrades that left the repository in an inconsistent state? I believe in most cases the complaints are due to the fact that people type "yum update" and then get errors instead of getting updates for packages, I guess in most cases it was not caused by someone trying to install a new perl package, but I might be wrong... Is that plugin available for CentOS 4 as well? Could it maybe be made available in either RPMforge or, better yet, CentOS Extras? If it's available, I would suggest writing an article on it on CentOS Wiki and adding a tip about it in the "Repositories" wiki page, we could also start referring people with such complaints to those pages as a way to work around their problem and get their machine to update until the offending packages are fixed... Thanks, Filipe _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
