On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:43 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > Like I said before - we could do it - up to a point where a new rpm and > yum needs a new glibc which pulls in THE WORLD. > > then you're no better off. to address this with regard to my other mail on the topic - mdv doesn't implement strict abi dependencies for python or glibc, so even when python and glibc updates are brought in when updating rpm first, this doesn't bring in the rest of the distro as deps. obviously the system is then basically broken once the first transaction is done until the second one is done, which is the drawback of that approach (apart from the other reasons why abi deps are good). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list