Hi
I guess that an important point is that one failing security update
does not make up for the rest of the equally important security
updates not getting installed.
I am not leaving out an update is a good idea unless explicitly
configured by the user. One way to avoid that is to include severity
level in the metadata and let yum decide on the appropriate course of
action based on the level of severity. The course of action might be
configurable. One of the important strengths of design in Unix like
systems has been to do the best when it can and to fail loudly and
completely otherwise. Yum is just doing that. If you dont agree with
this idea just write a yum plugin to do what you want it do and get it
included in yum-utils and we can check out this in practise and see if
its worth getting this feature into yum itself. The idea of doing
partial updates have come up many times in several mailing lists and the
yum developers dont seem to convinced with the idea. Working code and
popularity of that code might convince them. My 2 cents.
regards
Rahul