Breaking deps deliberately

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed May 13 19:55:02 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 15:37 -0400, James Antill wrote:
>  yum update-minimal --security
> 
> ...this doesn't work in Fedora because we only ship one version of the
> package. Also PK can't do a minimal-update.
>  But creating separate repos. will not help this problem, IMNSHO.

Well not only do we only ship one version, but we only have one CVS
branch too, so often the security fixes get applied on top of previous
feature updates.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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