Making updates-testing more useful

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Dec 12 16:56:50 UTC 2008



On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Christopher Stone wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> In general skip-broken is probably going to need to be the default for these
>> Yes, having skip-broken notify users of the problems its going to skip
>> over, and not silently skip would make me feel better. There will be a
>
> --skip-broken is borked, I used it the other day with the PackageKit
> problems, and skip-broken tried to pull in a bunch of .i386 deps (I
> don't have any .i386 rpms installed on my system).  It did manage to
> skip the broken rpms, but it also tried to pull in a bunch of .i386
> rpms as well which is obviously wrong.
>

I bet it is not wrong. the i386 packages probably provide what was 
required. They just provide it sub-optimally.

-sv




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