yum plugin suggestion or yum change?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, seth vidal wrote:
>> I'm still not convinced that partial updates are an okay thing to do.
>> But someone providing sensible code that handles the ugly corner cases
>> nicely will do a lot toward convincing me.
> 
> Just a FYI for anybody starting to play with this:
> 
> This can't be done with current yum plugin infrastructure - plugins in 
> pre/postresolve slots can't affect the result code yum itself sees from 
> the depsolve stage, meaning even if you fix the transaction set from 
> postresolve yum will still stop with broken deps errors. So, it's 
> possible to write a proof-of-concept plugin for this but it wont be able 
> to do anything without some changes to yum itself.
> 
>     - Panu -
> 

Very interesting - I was looking for something like that :o)

/Thomas