On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 10:18:35AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 05:01, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: > > Doing the upgrade with apt causes the named packages to be held back, > > and everything else to be upgraded properly. > > It's doable - in the event of unresolved dependencies the affected > packages would need to be removed from the transaction list. It's not > that hard. But yum is going to warn the user out the wazoo about this, > though. The idea of updates not being performed but yum still exiting > successfully makes me cringe a bit. And then all packages that depended on the packages that got removed have to be removed and so on. In theory it's just a matter of a simple graph-algorithm - and if you say it's easy to do this inside yum as well that's very good. And yes - I agree yum should _not_ exit successfully in such cases - it should warn the user and exit with a non-zero exit-code. I couldn't find a list of exit-codes in the man-page, but I would suggest a seperate exit-code for "partial success" than other types of errors. -- Ragnar Kj?rstad
