Making updates-testing more useful

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Dec 12 15:55:47 UTC 2008



On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Thomas Moschny wrote:

> 2008/12/12 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
>>> A dependency problem in the set of packages provided by
>>>  (fedora base, updates from today, rpmfusion from today)
>>> is somehow more 'severe' than a dependency problem from
>>>  (fedora base, updates from today, rpmfusion from yesterday)
>>
>> How? It's the same to the user. They can't do what they wanted to do b/c
>> they're out of sync.
>
> That's not true. They could go and report the dependency problems
> somewhere - which would be superfluous work in case their mirror is
> simply behind. And btw, how do you know what they really wanted -
> probably they simply run yum upgrade.
>

Which is really what --skip-broken is for.

In general skip-broken is probably going to need to be the default for 
these multi-repo situations. I don't LOVE it but if we tie this info into 
the updateinfo.xml so we can properly notify the user if a security or 
important update cannot be applied b/c of a broken dependency, then I will 
feel better about it.

-sv




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