PackageKit and default update strategy

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 13:03 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> LoL.  Well one thing I'd like to see get working is the ability to
> turn on skipping broken packages.  I've had a very hard time trying to
> help test PK because of the constant group of broken packages in
> rawhide, so that just doing an 'update' fails.  For specifics I guess
> I'll try to narrow things down and get some bugs filed to help make it
> work.

You probably want to try the experimental yum2 backend - be prepared
that it's not yet as stable as the original yum backend but is quicker
and has more features. Jump on the packagekit mailing list and we'll
give you a hand when you get stuck :-)

Richard.