Strange package dependency problem

[Iain Rae]

seth vidal wrote:

>>If you're dealing with large numbers of systems then automagic updates 
>>(from a stable) are a necessity, however you have to back them up with 
>>reporting/monitoring systems. I wouldn't expect yum to do all that, it's 
>>too site specific. Having yum mail root a summary might be useful but 
>>it's fairly trivial to add that into the above cron job.
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>Something to keep in mind - if you're dealing with large numbers of
>systems and you're updating them from rawhide then you're asking for
>pain in general, not just b/c of the updating.
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At work we're updating from redhat (they're mostly redhat9  boxes), 
Fedora, freshrpms,,  vendor/project  supplied and homebrew rpms,  you 
can learn to cope with certain levels of pain :)
We use a staging repository so nothing goes on completely blindly, but 
the thought of updating hundreds of hosts by hand every night is about 
as painful as the thought of telling them all to ignore errors.