repository breakage

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,


> > So if yum updates the other packages and completes its operation, but
> > doesn't error out, how does the average user know that anything went
> > wrong?
> > 
> > And if they don't know that something went wrong, then how will they
> > know if they missed an update?

yum could still error out, but at least complete the upgrade for all
packages that it does have a clean resolution for.  I really don't see
why the packages that can be upgraded correctly have to wait until the
user manually resolves some obscure problem - especially given that from
the error output it isn't necessarily easy to figure out how to resolve
the problem.

So if you feel erroring out is important, that's fine - but I see no
harm at all in upgrading everything else.
 
> They'd need to first figure out what are the packages that are causing
> their transaction to fail or from which repository are they from, then
> issue the update again with proper --exclude and/or --disablerepo
> switches.  Don't you think this is a major hurdle in this target group
> of "most" or "extremely average" end users?

+1

I don't think we're doing users a favour by asking them to manually
resolve some edge problem and not upgrade anything for them until they
do so.

Thomas


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