We rsync our updates from SL and then move the java ones into a separate 
repo to avoid recent problems with unsigned packages.

We then sign them with rpm v3, which with Sun java rpms is often the 
only way.

Problem solved.

Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> 
>> P.P.S. I am puzzled why yum does not have the obvious improvement, 
>> where if
>> you install 100 packages and yum does not like 1 of them, it still 
>> installs
>> the 99 packages it is happy with.
> 
> That would be nice, though it isn't trivial to work out which
> of the 99 will work without the 1. Worst case you could degenerate
> into an n-squared dependency search.
> 


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