Re: yum and indirect downgrades

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:53 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> [email protected] writes:

>  And you are relying on a few things that distributions don't do:
> 
> 1. Split packages into "foo" and "foo-config", this is work for you as
> I assume you need to repackage a lot of distribution packages but
> isn't too far from "normal" from yum's POV.
> 

I suspect this way will lie all kinds of madness. The virtue a cfg-mgmt
system has is being able to throw down specific configs for a machine
type or profile and/or dynamic reconfiguration.

Now, we can definitely tie yum verify into the machine-specific config
for verifying pkgs 

but I think foo and foo-config for every pkg is a lot more work than you
think - and let's not even get into the discussion of things which are
NOT QUITE config files but sort of are.



-sv