Default behavior should be to give an error message and refuse to do anything -- same as now. The error message should name an option (perhaps: "--allowincompleteupdate" or something like that) that the user can apply that will disable the error and "do what's possible" to update what it can. Rick On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: > 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
