Bug 814380

Summary:	Add skip_broken=1 to yum.conf by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Heiko Adams <bugzilla>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Fedora Packaging Toolset Team <packaging-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, maxamillion, packaging-team, pmatilai, tla, zpavlas
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Description Heiko Adams 2012-04-19 18:01:15 UTC

Description of problem:
Yum has the ability to exclude broken packages from updates since several version but to use this feature you've to add the --skip-broken parameter everytime you run "yum update" or add "skip_broken=1" to your yum.conf.

It would be a good idea to add the "skip_broken=1" line by default to the yum.conf to make yum exclude broken packages from updates by default and without user interaction.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-23.fc17.noarch

How reproducible:
allways
  
Actual results:
yum aborts updates if one or more packages have dependency problems

Expected results:
yum should exclude packages with dependency problems and contiune update process and update all packages without dependency problems

Additional info:

Comment 1 James Antill 2012-04-20 16:19:37 UTC

 Maybe when we get a new depsolver, we can look at this again. But atm. skip-broken doesn't work well enough to enable it for everyone.

 There's also the fact that it's _much_ better if you are using repos. that aren't broken, instead of relying on skip-broken.