Matthew Miller writes: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:53:26AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:46 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Would it be useful to have yum NOT fail when one repo happens to be > > > offline? Even if the best/newest version of a package should happen to > > > be in that repo, I would find it helpful to get the best available at > > > the moment knowing that the latest and greatest version will be picked > > > up later on 'yum update,' etc. > > very dangerous behavior, actually. Especially when you have a local repo > > that has specifically needed versions of some packages. > > Instead, if one fails and you *know* it's okay, --disablerepo it and try > again. > I do exactly that, but the list of --disablerepo switches gets a tad tedious to build. I suppose I should note that I have non Fedora repos such as Dag, Freshrpms, PlanetCCRMA, Gstreamer, and a few more. Currently running an FC3 to FC4 upgrade via Yum on my x86_64 system. Fingers crossed. > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > Current office temperature: 82 degrees Fahrenheit. > > -- > Fedora-maintainers mailing list > Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
