yum plugin suggestion or yum change?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>
> I guess that an important point is that one failing security update 
> does not make up for the rest of the equally important security 
> updates not getting installed.

I am not leaving out an update is a good idea unless explicitly 
configured by the user. One way to avoid that is to include severity 
level in the metadata and let yum decide on the appropriate course of 
action based on the level of severity. The course of action might be 
configurable. One of the important strengths of design in Unix like 
systems has been to do the best when it can and to fail loudly and 
completely otherwise. Yum is just doing that. If you dont agree with 
this idea just write a yum plugin to do what you want it do and get it 
included in yum-utils and we can check out this in practise and see if 
its worth getting this feature into yum itself.  The idea of doing 
partial updates have come up many times in several mailing lists and the 
yum developers dont seem to  convinced with the idea. Working code and 
popularity of that code might convince them. My 2 cents.

regards
Rahul