On Wednesday 17 August 2005 14:44, Horst von Brand wrote: > Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:43 +0100, Paul wrote: > > > I'm not sure if it's me or the build box, but today must go down as the > > > day with most number of packages borked in rawhide - there are tonnes > > > relying on libpixman and libcairo and if they're excluded, there are > > > still about that additionally have to be excluded as well! > > > > Here's a thought - if the daily rawhide report comes with a list of > > broken dependencies, it probably wouldn't take much for it to also > > include the yum command line needed to update everything not affected by > > the broken deps. Or yum itself could have a --exclude-broken-deps ... > > I'd vote for --shadow=SomePackageGlob, meaning "Install everything that > doesn't depend (directly or indirectly) on SomePackage" (modulated by the > usual --exclude=SomeJunk and ListOfStuff arguments). Methinks this would be > generally useful, not only for futzing around with rawhide, as this is > usually what you want (not just raw --exclude=ThisOrThat). > > Or else, "--install-whatever-you-can --i-know-what-im-doing > --yes-i-do-mean-it --just-doit-damnit" flags > > > Broken deps are always going to be a fact of life with rawhide - it'd > > be nice if didn't suck up too much time for people, though. > > Nodz. > -- > Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org > Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 > Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 > Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 I like the --just-do-it-dambit flag :) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list