Breaking deps deliberately

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 13 15:18:26 UTC 2009



On Wed, 13 May 2009, drago01 wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> Colin Walters wrote:
>>> Would it be easier to do more extensive checks only for say security
>>> updates?  Maybe we could consider splitting fedora-updates into two
>>> repos; fedora-updates-security and fedora-updates-all?
>>
>> That doesn't really work, because security updates in Fedora are usually
>> not "security only" updates, but also have other changes, depend on
>> non-security updates, both obsolete and get obsoleted by non-security
>> updates etc. Having 2 separate updates repos would mean maintaining 2
>> separate branches of packages like Adam Williamson is describing, one with
>> security updates only and one with the rest. That doubles the maintainer
>> workload and doesn't help the case of security updates for the packages
>> from "all" (because the packages in "security" would have only the security
>> fix and not the changes previously done in "all").
>
> + it wont solve anything anway .. if the a dep is broken yum will
> abort the whole transaction not only for the repo with the broken
> deps.

well yum --skip-broken should be able to handle some of the broken deps - 
depending on how deeply broken things are.

-sv


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