2008/12/12 Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> Another good question (related to the "will this confuse new users" part): >> Will you enable the updates-testing repos from 3rd party repos in the same >> step automatically? Otherwise people that use those repos will now and then >> run into dependency troubles -- for example when a new xine-lib enters >> updates-testing from Fedora and xine-lib-extras-nonfree enters >> updates-testing from RPM Fusion at the same time. >> >> But well, likely it doesn't matter to much anyway, as yum is still pretty >> broken in such situations anyway, as mirror lags will confuse it: >> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-August/msg00041.html > > Yes, that's right yum is broken b/c the mirrors are out of sync. No matter how hard you try, there will always be a small period in time where mirrors are out of sync. And this especially holds for the synchronization between the main Fedora repo and third party repos. So there should be a mechanism developed to make yum aware of the fact that one repo (or mirror) it uses is behind others - because that can lead to (virtual) dependency problems which probably should be reported to the end user in a different way than intra-repo dependency problems. - Thomas -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
