On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:07, Erik Williamson wrote: > Hi Seth et al, > > Along the same lines - not urgent at all though - but when I place a > package in the repository with improper permissions (ie, 0600) such that > the webserver can't read it, yum-arch works - but a 'yum install' on > the client machine barfs and dies - I was thinking that if there was a > way for yum to pass over the package if possible & report the problem, > that would be sweet. hmm - this is not terribly trivial - if you've got a header that is readable but a package that is not readable yum knows it needs whatever this header's package. If I were then to check for the package status and recalculate dependencies based on what I just found out about the package's status I'd be in an even longer loop for dep calculation. HOWEVER, I might be able to grab it from the other end - Ie: if the file on the server isn't at least 444 yum-arch could issue a warning about it. It wouldn't stop a problem but it might give you a heads up. > > As an aside, we're about to roll out RedHat 7.3 here using Yum on over > 100 Machines! Yum kicks butt - Thanks so much Seth. > Great to hear. We've got it running on quite a number of machines in physics and around duke and I've been fairly happy with how its functioning. -sv
