yum-2.2.0 in contrib

Bogdan Costescu <Bogdan.Costescu-hEciA7+sKtudPOQpRHQ53DeJuz7u0hKX@public.gmane.org> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:39:30 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tao.general
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503151727060.10925-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi David!

yum-2.2.0 was added to contrib a few days ago, but I think that it was
not a very good decision. On systems without "protectbasesystem=1" in
yum.conf and with contrib enabled (which so far was painless due to 
the non-overlapping of packages), 'yum update' will install the new 
yum; after the installation, running yum again will fail because it 
doesn't find the XML repodata directories.

So, would it be possible for you to add the XML repodata for TaoLinux
1.0 directories such that yum-2.2 will work ? (which means to also
continue to do it for updates...) This way, people that don't use
protectbase and have contrib enabled in yum.conf can just seamlessly
jump from yum-2.0 to yum-2.2. In other cases (using protectbase or
disabled contrib), the new yum will not be installed and the problem
doesn't exist.

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Bogdan Costescu

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