[Yum-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Skip-broken support again

[Florian Festi]

Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> The next step after the code is included is to add a command line option 
> to enable it in yum-cli.
> should we stick with ''--skip-broken" or is there any better ideas.

IMHO this is the way to go right now. In the long run I think we should 
extend the skip-broken code to be also able to handle dist upgrades. This 
will require not only ignoring updates but to also remove no longer 
supported packages. That way we could also remove the hacks in anaconda to 
handle these cases. We implemented this with just a few lines of code in 
pyrpm and it works very well. I guess we just have to implement the 
"continue" in _skipPackagesWithProblems()

For yum it would make sense to split that up into two options: One that it 
guaranteed not to remove a package (skip-broken) and one that pushes the 
updates in as far as possible and removes no longer working packages (e.g. 
that need an older version of an updated library). We used the term 
auto-erase(r) but may be fix-broken is a better term.

Florian