[packagekit] PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

[Tim Lauridsen]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>   
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Just not true. There is no reason that repos cannot be kept internally
>>> consistent at all times.
>>>       
>> Tools are supposed to deal with the current reality. Not a idealised
>> version of it. Even if theoretically repos can be kept consistent, in
>> practise it isn't always that way. So what is PackageKit going to do
>> about it?
>>     
>
> Sure, PK needs to be able to handle the occasional inconsistency,
> but designing the tool around the current rawhide situation (almost always
> inconsistent) is just not adequate.
>
>   
>>> Inconsistencies between multiple repositories are different, and
>>> should probably be treated
>>> differently, too.
>>>       
>> How exactly? Majority of users end up using multiple repositories anyway
>> so the situation of a user using just a single repository is mostly
>> irrelevant.
>>     
>
> One thing that comes to mind would be to ignore 'additional' repos if
> they cause conflicts with the 'main' one.
>   
it is not that simple, if you have installed 'bar' from a additional 
repo there need a 'libfoo.so.1'  (libfoo-1.0) from the main repo.
and the lib is bumped to 'libfoo.so.2' (libfoo-2.0), then the 
transaction will fail until an updated 'bar' there need 'libfoo.so.2' is 
available.

Tim
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