nasty hack around broken yum archive dependancy blockages

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 09:46, seth vidal wrote:
> > The way my rawhide mirror works (mirror of a mirror), it would be nice
> > if yum had a --update-what-you-can option. After a normal pass, it would
> > just --exclude anything it reports as not upgradeable due to dependency
> > issues and tries again until it succeeds. I don't know python but I may
> > try to do a wrapper in perl...
> 
> Ok, 
>  1. wrapping python programs in perl is simply DIRTY. Let's not do
> that. 
>  2. it's funny that the only reason people want this feature in yum is
> b/c rawhide is so frequently dependency-incomplete. Kinda an odd
> direction to follow for writing features.
> 
> -sv

1 - I (mostly) said that because I knew it would gross you out! 

2 - Considering the number of times I run yum during a beta period and
how often rawhide is broken/incompletely mirrored, it would be a very
worthwhile feature IMHO... and why I will still probably do #1 for my
personal use unless you have other plans :-)

tjb
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