On Sunday 12 November 2006 11:28, Gilboa Davara wrote: > By -design-, Anacnoda bombs out if anything is broken. Actually I strongly question this. Anaconda seems perfectly happy to install packages with broken deps. its when things are missing for %post installs that things go haywire. > If you maintain that there's no way to create/detect/exclude a stable > tree image, Anaconda should be able to detect and remove missing deps > -and- do graceful recovery (as opposed to graceful exit) when something > is broken but was undetected during the initial scan. > This should ensure that unless something is broken within Anaconda > (which is interesting and worthwhile by itself), most install attempts > will end with a bootable image - no matter which package configuration > was selected. Missing stuff (or broken stuff) can always be installed > using "yum --exclude XXX update" But in my new world of rawhide, where anaconda knows nothing about packages until you start the install and it pulls the latest repodata from whatever repo this becomes a bit different. Anaconda doesn't know anything until you run it, not when the boot images were created. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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