F12beta: yum update --skip-broken via gui?

[Seth Vidal]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 10/23/2009 05:08 PM, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>> I've just installed F12beta (x86_64) in a KVM virtual machine without
>> problems. When trying to update through System->Administration->Software
>> Update it failed because of a missing dependency. Not really a surprise
>> there. I then update through a yum update --skip-broken, that worked.
>>
>> Is there a way to do a '--skip-broken' via de gui updater? That would be
>> a really useful feature. Now you have to find the misbehaving package(s)
>> and deselect them before you can do a update. To longer the list of
>> updates...
>
> PackageKit already uses --skip-broken by default anyway. So the problem
> was likely something like a conflict which cannot be detected before the
> transaction (unlike a dependency failure) and hence would not be solved
> via --skip-broken.

file-conflicts can't be detected before the ts - but explicit conflicts 
can.

-sv