Strange package dependency problem

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 16:20 +0000, Iain Rae wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >>If you're dealing with large numbers of systems then automagic updates 
> >>(from a stable) are a necessity, however you have to back them up with 
> >>reporting/monitoring systems. I wouldn't expect yum to do all that, it's 
> >>too site specific. Having yum mail root a summary might be useful but 
> >>it's fairly trivial to add that into the above cron job.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >Something to keep in mind - if you're dealing with large numbers of
> >systems and you're updating them from rawhide then you're asking for
> >pain in general, not just b/c of the updating.
> >  
> >
> 
> At work we're updating from redhat (they're mostly redhat9  boxes), 
> Fedora, freshrpms,,  vendor/project  supplied and homebrew rpms,  you 
> can learn to cope with certain levels of pain :)
> We use a staging repository so nothing goes on completely blindly, but 
> the thought of updating hundreds of hosts by hand every night is about 
> as painful as the thought of telling them all to ignore errors.
> 

you're updating to the development tree?

-sv