Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 02:42:32 am Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
>   
> > On Monday 06 July 2009 23:25:42 David C. Rankin wrote:
> >     
> > > On Monday 06 July 2009 02:22:02 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Listmates,
> > > >
> > > >    After updating to factory Yast2, I am surprised to find there is no
> > > > "Skip" option to choose in the event of a failed package during install.
> > > > Today, attempting an update, all "cairo" packages failed due to freetype
> > > > errors. Once the package failed, the only options were to "ignore" (a
> > > > no-no) "abort" (not what I wanted to do after protecting 5 packages out
> > > > of a list of 43) or "cancel" (how this is different that abort escapes
> > > > me). All I wanted to do was "skip" the failed package and continue
> > > > installing the rest. Where has the "skip" option gone??
> > > >
> > > >    Bug or feature?
> > > >         
> > > Correction:
> > >
> > >     The current options are
> > >
> > > "Ignore" "Abort" "Retry"
> > >
> > >     But still no skip. Same question, "Bug or Feature?"
> > >       
> > I think "ignore" is what you are looking for.
> >
> >
> >     
>
> That's what I thought too, but in this case "ignore" is equivalent to 
> "ignore" the error and "force" the install. A very very bad thing. Choosing 
> ignore generates a prompt warning that Choosing Ignore can Lead to a Broken 
> system. So I don't think "ignore" is the same as skip here...
>
>   
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431854 "Yast2 sw_single
should not exit after an installation has failed elements - commit does
not report any error" if it was fixed you would return to yast to enable
you to prevent problems. I hope its eventually fixed for 11.2
Regards
Dave P

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