yum --skip-boken not work

José Matos jamatos at fc.up.pt
Tue May 20 08:15:45 UTC 2008


On Monday 19 May 2008 23:35:03 Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 19 mai 2008 23:30, Oscar Victorio Calixto Bacho a écrit :
> > Hi Guy
> >
> > yum --skip-broken update no work in today rawhide.
> >
> > exit  said Skip-broken could not solve problems. It is totem problem.
>
> you need to use something like
>
> # yum --skip-broken -y update -x totem-pl-parser -x
> evolution-data-server -x evolution -x openssh-server -x rhythmbox -x
> ekiga -x evolution-webcal -x brasero -x pidgin -x gnome-panel -x
> control-center
>
> in rawhide like now. How did I arrive there? Because I'm smarter than
> the skip-broken algorithm.
>
> skip-broken is too dumb to realise that since totem-pl-parser can't be
> updated (because totem depends on the old version) it needs to be
> excluded. And once it's excluded all the new packages that depended
> directly or indirectly on totem-pl-parser need to be excluded too.

Actually if you update some packages in a separate transaction, and repeat 
this procedure, at a certain point --skip-broken will correctly exclude all 
those packages that you have excluded manually.

So there is here some kind of threshold but I was unable to determine which 
one or what package was the culprit.

> --
> Nicolas Mailhot

-- 
José Abílio




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