[Yum] ah, clarifying tolerant mode

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Oct 25 17:16:24 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 12:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   ok, just to make sure, as i read it, if you're running yum
> in "intolerant" mode and any of the command line args don't
> "make sense", the entire command is discarded and no changes 
> are made.
> 
>   by not "making sense", that would mean perhaps some variation
> of the following:
> 
>   1) trying to install an already-installed package
>   2) trying to update a non-installed package
>   3) trying to remove a non-installed package(??)
>   4) others ???
> 
>   however, in "tolerant" mode, any problematic arguments are
> just skipped and the rest are still processed.
> 
>   is that about right?

yes.

-sv





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