On Saturday 22 November 2003 23:35, seth vidal wrote: > the problem with atomicity is how to behave when it's an automatic run? > > yum -y update > > if package foo, bar and baz can't be updated b/c of some sort of > dependency behavior should I fail or should I just warn? Warn. Without -y, yum's output could be: package quux needs xyz = 1.3 (not provided) foo, bar, baz cannot be updated. Proceed anyway? [y/N]: I will do the following ... Is this ok ? [y/N]: The option -y means: Answer yes to all (both) questions (if the man page is right). > All of the above is about describing expected behavior so the user is > not SHOCKED when something happens on their system that maybe they > didn't ask for. Installing fewer packages than requested should not be too shocking, given that all other dependencies are satisfied. Yum should output a warning, though. Thomas
