skip-broken yum plugin skips dependency check in F7?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 18 09:39:49 UTC 2007


Leszek Matok wrote:
> Dnia 2007-07-18, o godz. 10:26:17 "Pasha R" <pashar.ml at gmail.com> napisał(a):
> 
>> when I run yum --skip-broken update, it simply ignores dependency
>> errors and happily installs broken package.
> It's slightly more complicated than that, but happens in Rawhide as well. The
> skip-broken plugin can't handle broken dependencies at all.

That's certainly not true. What the OP has run into is a bug in the 
plugin. You should report issues instead of assuming a plugin cannot 
handle cases it was explicitly designed for.

Rahul




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