Re: license enforcement

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 12:37 -0800, Ram Pai wrote:
> Is there a way to ensure that yum installs a rpm only if the license
> terms of the software within the rpm is agreed to, by the enduser.
> 
> I suppose, this would mean that createrepo would have to extract 
> and store the licensing metadata in its xml file, and the enduser tools
> like yum/yast/up2date would have to consult that metadata before
> proceeding.

You could definitely do it with a yum plugin that ran pre-transaction to
confirm everything with the user.

-sv