On 12/28/2011 12:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/28/2011 09:45 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> When running "yumex --skip-broken --nogpgcheck" I see a number of packages >> in the list of updates that are excluded as having >> dependency issues if I run "yum --skip-broken --nogpgcheck". Does the >> skip-broken with yumex get considered*only* if I try to >> apply the updates? Until I'm sure about that I'm a little worried about >> doing an apply with yumex (as many of the packages that get >> excluded under yum but not yumex are X packages and I don't want to have a >> non-working X environment suddenly). > > I've never tried running yumex that way from a CLI. However, I've selected > those options in yumex a few times to get around > issues. From what I've seen, yumex will show you all of the updates and even > allow you to select them, even with those options > because it's not until it tries to resolve the dependencies that the problems > reveal themselves. It's different with yum because > yum doesn't give you the list of updates until after checking dependencies.
Ah, that's interesting. I wonder why the decision was made to have yumex perform in that manner? Ah well, may never know. Thanks for the info. Kevin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
