Rawhide stability

[Florian La Roche]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:42:40PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:36:53PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > For all the bizarre decisions apt-rpm can occasionally do in depsolving, 
> > this kind of thing it does rather well. Depending on various details and 
> > the used method, it'll either hold back from updating a package or remove 
> > if there's no other way to solve the issue. Additionally with 
> > --fix-missing it's much more forgiving about partially out-of-sync mirrors 
> > than yum is.
> 
> Yeah, it's nice how APT is happy to totally eat all of your system so it can
> reduce it to a consistent set. :)

You can add a mode where only updates are limited to a subset without
dependency problems, so that broken rawhide pushes can still be consumed.

regards,

Florian La Roche