> I think installed or updated are 2 seperate issues. If I say install > pkg 1, 2, 3 and only 2 and 3 are installed there should be some king of warning > or optionally have yum stop and complain. If however you are upgrading and > one of the packages is already up to date I do not see the harm in continuing > to update the other packages without much if any fanfare. I see it as kinda > like doing rpm -Fvh pkg1 pkg2 pkg3. Using this command line rpm will only update > that which has updated packages. If the admin screwed up and did not include > all of the updates in the repository than that is on him/her. All of this > assumes that deps are satisfied. If there are deps problems then things should > barf. > > Does this make sense or am I missing something?? I think it may well make sense on update. And I think I had a better reason for not continuing on update but I can't remember it now. Maybe I'll look back through the list archives and see if we talked about it. I coulda sworn there was a reason. > Am I to understand that options to the function != options to yum?? I do not > have any problem with the above being an option. the function has an option to ignore the error and just warn - yum (the cli) does not have that option. > As long as I can configure it myself I am a happy camper. :-) <nod> -sv
