Re: yum-2.2.0 in contrib

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:39, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> 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.

Yeesh.  Yes, I already yanked yum-2.2 from [contrib] (*smacks self*),
and found that two of my own boxen had been whacked. :-/  I had hoped
that the number of systems with [contrib] enabled and 'protectbase'
disabled would be small - I would expect 0 for production servers.
> 
> 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.

Yes, I'll just do metadata in both formats from here on out.  yum-2.2
does have some improvements - but one serious downfall -> no
protectbase.  The only saving grace is, if anybody was using
protectbase, they didn't get yum-2.2. :-/

The jury is still out on porting protectbase to 2.2.  With 2.2, I think
there may be better, safer options available. (includepkgs)

David

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