Re: Upgrade of unmaintained packages

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

>     I really really hate the way yum just craps out and quits
> whenever a single package's dependencies can't be met during an
> upgrade, though.  I'm tracking Rawhide, which is of course not
> supported, and I know yum is being worked on (I don't know what kind
> of issues are being addressed, though).  But yum, as it is, makes me
> want to shoot things; it has no provision for upgrades at all.

umm. What?

no provision for upgrades? It doesn't provide for upgrading broken
package dependencies, that's true.

But I've done upgrades with yum, many of them, in fact....

so I think your statement might be JUST a touch extreme.

-sv