On 10/15/06, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 19:19 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:15:37PM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > Well, forgive my ignorance here, but does ATrpms override any FC or FE > > RPMs? If so, why? > > It strikes me that this is fixable in software whether intentional or not > by teaching yum that repository 'x' must not contain packages that clash > with repository 'y' and if they do to skip it for now with a warning. > There's a plugin called 'protectbase' which does just that.
I think that a repository that overrides base packages is far more damaging than any comments an individual can make on bugzilla or the mailing list. It is essentially forking Fedora and causes a lot of problems for the Fedora community. Such repositories are essentially creating their own distribution and should not be acceptable. It would be better for everyone, in my opinion, if these repositories created their own distribution instead. Therefore, I propose that the 'protectbase' plugin, be actually integrated into yum proper, and instead make a plugin which allows repositories to override core packages. That is, the default should be that no repository is allowed to override base packages unless you specifically install a plugin to allow them to do so. Comments? -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
