Re: Upcoming transition of FC3

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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Jeff Sheltren wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >
> > Well, we need to get packages ready for FC3 for us to provide to  
> > the end
> > user, as well as packages ready for FC5 to be included in core
> > distribution.  Using $releasever and $basearch variables in our repo
> > file means we can supply one repo file that will work across releases.
> > No need to have different ones.
> >
> > Since we'll have two packages (one we provide for FC3 and FC4, and the
> > one that will go into Fedora Core), the one we provide we can  
> > enable by
> > default.  The user grabbing the package and installing it seems to be
> > choice enough in my mind.  However the package that goes into core
> > should have the repo itself disabled.
> 
> Here's a package for FC5:
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jeff/legacy/legacy-yumconf-5-1.fc5.src.rpm
> 
> Everything is disabled by default.

Has anyone given thought to pushing an update to yum that enables these
repos as the last update to come from the Fedora Project? That way for those
that do not realize the transition is happening, it "just works" for them?

I realize there are both positives and negatives to this but I just thought
I would throw it out for discussion.

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx		Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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