Testing Fedora - small (?) suggestion.
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Nov 12 17:09:35 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 11:53 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sunday 12 November 2006 11:28, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > By -design-, Anacnoda bombs out if anything is broken.
>
> Actually I strongly question this. Anaconda seems perfectly happy to install
> packages with broken deps. its when things are missing for %post installs
> that things go haywire.
>
> > If you maintain that there's no way to create/detect/exclude a stable
> > tree image, Anaconda should be able to detect and remove missing deps
> > -and- do graceful recovery (as opposed to graceful exit) when something
> > is broken but was undetected during the initial scan.
> > This should ensure that unless something is broken within Anaconda
> > (which is interesting and worthwhile by itself), most install attempts
> > will end with a bootable image - no matter which package configuration
> > was selected. Missing stuff (or broken stuff) can always be installed
> > using "yum --exclude XXX update"
>
> But in my new world of rawhide, where anaconda knows nothing about packages
> until you start the install and it pulls the latest repodata from whatever
> repo this becomes a bit different. Anaconda doesn't know anything until you
> run it, not when the boot images were created.
Can it be fixed by pointing Anaconda to a second, automatically
screened, repodata?
- Gilboa
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