Fwd: Submission deadline for Changes of Fedora 23

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Fri Jun 26 17:26:01 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 11:32 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> Having done a few mass updates using DNF over the last few months, I 
> have 
> noticed that their depsolver handles complicated messes better than 
> yum did, 
> and can proceed with partial updates where yum used fail entirely.

...that's really more about policy than any technical reason, though:
DNF `upgrade` is roughly equivalent to `yum upgrade --skip-broken`.

If you use `dnf upgrade --best` you get the yum default behavior, which
will fail when there are broken deps - just like yum did.

-w


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