FC6 updates broken deps?

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Thu Feb 22 15:26:29 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> 
> and this is why the update system is writing out update data. So, we can
> differentiate b/t update for feature and update for security, or
> different grades of a security update.
> 
> then we can work more intelligently on:
> yum update security-critical-only (as an example)
> 

That would be a nice thing for sure, but would really depend on the 
inclusion of some sort of --continue-on-failure functionality of yum. It 
makes no sense to provide a "security updates only" option, if the 20 
security updates in there could potentially be held back because of a 
dep problem with one of them.

I've said this a thousand times over and I'll say it again. I would 
*much* rather have 1 package with a known security problem (held back 
because of a dep issue with that package), than 20.

/Thomas




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