when does --skip-broken get applied when using yumex?

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 17:48:18 UTC 2011


On 28/12/11 17:45, Kevin Martin wrote:
> When running "yumex --skip-broken --nogpgcheck" I see a number of packages in the list of  updates that are excluded as having
> dependency issues if I run "yum --skip-broken --nogpgcheck".  Does the skip-broken with yumex get considered *only* if I try to
> apply the updates?  Until I'm sure about that I'm a little worried about doing an apply with yumex (as many of the packages that get
> excluded under yum but not yumex are X packages and I don't want to have a non-working X environment suddenly).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin

in /etc/yum.conf

skip_broken=1



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