yum plugin suggestion or yum change?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> ...
>> When updating multiple packages, yum will bail out on dependency error 
>> with a singloe package.
> 
> Maybe yum should start over again, trying other mirrors,
> if dependencies are not satisfied?
> 
> Mogens
> 

That would possibly solve some issues, but i think a better way would be 
something like testing dependencies for each package and ONLY adding it 
to the transaction list if dependencies can be resolved (slightly 
simplified description of course).

An example from the development tree a few days ago, yum -y update fails 
to update anything at all because of avahi and a few other things. yum 
-y update httpd is able to successfully update httpd with all its 
dependencies including php and others. So in this case httpd (and all 
the other packages that have no problems) should have the possibility to 
actually be updated by a simple yum -y update. Yum should simply warn 
that certain packages cannot be updated and then continue to perform the 
update of everything else.

Some times people add 3rd party repo's that are not always totally sane 
(could be a local repo with business related packages). But a few 
problems should not cause other packages from being updated.

/Thomas