Rawhide stability

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 2/21/07, Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> wrote:
> > # yum install yum-skip-broken and use the --skip-broken parameter.
>
> My hero!  A "smallest possible transaction" mode would still make me
> happier for rawhide upgrades.  I have too many times had the giant yum
> upgrade not have any dep problems, but have some %post error or kernel
> crash in the middle, that left me with an unholy mess of half-upgraded crap
> to sort out (usually both versions of a billion rpms in the db, with the
> files maybe from the new one or maybe still some files from the old one,
> etc).

That's why I always upgrade kernel in its own transaction. Maybe there
is another plugin for this...