On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 09:46, seth vidal wrote:
> The way my rawhide mirror works (mirror of a mirror), it would
be nice
> if yum had a --update-what-you-can option. After a normal pass, it would
> just --exclude anything it reports as not upgradeable due to dependency
> issues and tries again until it succeeds. I don't know python but I may
> try to do a wrapper in perl...
Ok,
1. wrapping python programs in perl is simply DIRTY. Let's not do
that.
2. it's funny that the only reason people want this feature in yum is
b/c rawhide is so frequently dependency-incomplete. Kinda an odd
direction to follow for writing features.
-sv
1 - I (mostly) said that because I knew it would gross you out!
2 - Considering the number of times I run yum during a beta period and
how often rawhide is broken/incompletely mirrored, it would be a very
worthwhile feature IMHO... and why I will still probably do #1 for my
personal use unless you have other plans :-)
tjb
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