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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