Upgrade of unmaintained packages
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jan 30 21:54:33 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 16:49, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > > I forgot to stick a smiley in there somewhere, caught up in
> > > frustration with yum as I was. :-)
> >
> > so in your ideal world, what is it that yum should do when confronted
> > with a broken dependency or package?
>
> On a distro upgrade, prune the dependency tree and upgrade
> just the packages it can (like apt-get's --fix-missing option).
>
what if it's not on a distro ugprade? just a normal update.. - what
then?
> The remaining packages will need to be cleaned up by the user,
> but in general the bulk of the packages can still be upgraded.
wouldn't that result in broken dependencies in the db?
-sv
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