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[Rahul Sundaram]

Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Primarily, I have to update manually and often have to exclude some broken
>> deps.
> 
> This would be greatly aided if yum had a "smallest usable transaction"
> mode.  That is, instead of always doing one giant upgrade that barfs if
> there are dependency problems, it would take each update available and suck
> in only its necessary deps as if you'd done "yum upgrade foobar" on the
> individual package, finish that, and then do the next transaction.  When
> some packages have dependency problems, they get punted but not everything
> else unrelated.  So instead of either "wait for a day when yum upgrade works"
> or "mess around manually a lot", every day has an "easily upgrade what
> upgrades easily" option.

# yum install yum-skip-broken and use the --skip-broken parameter.

Rahul