Last night I had an idea, why not alias "yum update" to "yum
--skip-broken update" by default? This simple hack could prevent a lot
of recurring support questions on the forums:
1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
2) It doesn't change anything for the rest of the people.
What do you think about that?
Steven
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12-11-2008, 07:09 PM
Seth Vidal
yum --skip-broken update by default?
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Steven Moix wrote:
Hello,
Last night I had an idea, why not alias "yum update" to "yum
--skip-broken update" by default? This simple hack could prevent a lot
of recurring support questions on the forums:
1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
b/c we need to get the dep problems reported, too.
2) It doesn't change anything for the rest of the people.
sure it does, it means that you think you're updated completely, but
you're not.
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12-11-2008, 07:18 PM
Bill Nottingham
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Seth Vidal (skvidal@fedoraproject.org) said:
>> 1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
>
> b/c we need to get the dep problems reported, too.
Then you also enable by default the yum-email-dep-problems-to-fedora-devel
plugin.
Bill
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12-11-2008, 07:20 PM
Seth Vidal
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Seth Vidal (skvidal@fedoraproject.org) said:
1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
b/c we need to get the dep problems reported, too.
Then you also enable by default the yum-email-dep-problems-to-fedora-devel
plugin.
Do we have an anonymous bug filer account we can use? If so, then,
well,yes, we can do that.
-sv
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12-11-2008, 07:24 PM
Stephen Gallagher
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Seth Vidal wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Seth Vidal (skvidal@fedoraproject.org) said:
>>>> 1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
>>>
>>> b/c we need to get the dep problems reported, too.
>>
>> Then you also enable by default the
>> yum-email-dep-problems-to-fedora-devel
>> plugin.
>
> Do we have an anonymous bug filer account we can use? If so, then,
> well,yes, we can do that.
>
> -sv
>
I would hope that this would be opt-in as well, or we're going to make a
lot of people angry. Some people don't necessarily want to broadcast the
list of packages they have or want on their system - broken or not.
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12-11-2008, 07:25 PM
Seth Vidal
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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Seth Vidal wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Seth Vidal (skvidal@fedoraproject.org) said:
1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
b/c we need to get the dep problems reported, too.
Then you also enable by default the
yum-email-dep-problems-to-fedora-devel
plugin.
Do we have an anonymous bug filer account we can use? If so, then,
well,yes, we can do that.
-sv
I would hope that this would be opt-in as well, or we're going to make a
lot of people angry. Some people don't necessarily want to broadcast the
list of packages they have or want on their system - broken or not.
What in fedora is NOT opt-in? Moreover, it's a plugin.
-sv
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12-11-2008, 07:26 PM
"Thomas Moschny"
yum --skip-broken update by default?
2008/12/11 Steven Moix <steven.moix@axianet.ch>:
> Last night I had an idea, why not alias "yum update" to "yum
> --skip-broken update" by default? This simple hack could prevent a lot
> of recurring support questions on the forums:
>
> 1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
> 2) It doesn't change anything for the rest of the people.
>
> What do you think about that?
Originally thought that as well, but then I saw yum --skip-broken
running into an endless loop with the dependency problems yesterday
(and not reacting well to crtl-c), so maybe this is not a good idea.
- Thomas
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12-11-2008, 07:29 PM
"Dr. Diesel"
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com> wrote:
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Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Seth Vidal (skvidal@fedoraproject.org) said:
>>>> 1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.
>>>
>>> b/c we need to get the dep problems reported, too.
>>
>> Then you also enable by default the
>> yum-email-dep-problems-to-fedora-devel
>> plugin.
>
> Do we have an anonymous bug filer account we can use? If so, then,
> well,yes, we can do that.
>
> -sv
>
I would hope that this would be opt-in as well, or we're going to make a
lot of people angry. Some people don't necessarily want to broadcast the
list of packages they have or want on their system - broken or not.
Its not really a problem to simply add --skip-broken when something is broke.* But I'd be OK with yum automatically using the --skip-broken feature, explaining what is broke at the end, then asking if it is ok to report it anonymously.*
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12-11-2008, 07:33 PM
"Jeff Spaleta"
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Thomas Moschny
<thomas.moschny@gmail.com> wrote:
> Originally thought that as well, but then I saw yum --skip-broken
> running into an endless loop with the dependency problems yesterday
> (and not reacting well to crtl-c), so maybe this is not a good idea.
I bug in software to protect you from encountering bugs in other software.....
oh the irony.
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12-11-2008, 07:36 PM
"Jeff Spaleta"
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2008/12/11 Dr. Diesel <dr.diesel@gmail.com>:
> Its not really a problem to simply add --skip-broken when something is
> broke. But I'd be OK with yum automatically using the --skip-broken
> feature, explaining what is broke at the end, then asking if it is ok to
> report it anonymously.
That seems like a reasonable trade-off. IF we can set up an anonymous
drop point that we can easily turn off its being abused with spam.
Don't forget to wrap that in UI for PK as well.
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