Re: Upgrade of unmaintained packages

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 16:49, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > >     I forgot to stick a smiley in there somewhere, caught up in
> > > frustration with yum as I was.  :-)
> > 
> > so in your ideal world, what is it that yum should do when confronted
> > with a broken dependency or package?
> 
> On a distro upgrade, prune the dependency tree and upgrade
> just the packages it can (like apt-get's --fix-missing option).
> 

what if it's not on a distro ugprade? just a normal update.. - what
then?


> The remaining packages will need to be cleaned up by the user,
> but in general the bulk of the packages can still be upgraded.

wouldn't that result in broken dependencies in the db?

-sv