Hi all, yes, I gave this release a name b/c it's almost 1am and I'm feeling a bit punchy. Tarball: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-1.95.tar.gz RPM for Red Hat Linux 9: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-1.95-1.noarch.rpm There are a lot of new things in this one - lots of things not yet documented too (sorry, I'm working on it) Some of these things are up for debate and consideration as to naming and location of files - this is why its 1.95 and not 2.0 - but the core functionality is there for 2.0 and I'd like to hear comments, please. This is for Red Hat Linux 9 and/or systems running rpm 4.1.1 or higher (yes, that's rpm 4.1.1 - NOT rpm 4.1, mind you) So on with the new things: yum can use comps.xml (renamed/symlinked/whatever to yumgroups.xml in baseurl) to distribute groups. the groups support is entirely optional - it only gets included if you specifically request group functionality group functionality consists of : grouplist [groupname|installed|available] - if this one isn't obvious, you should probably stop reading ;) - lists pkgs either installed or available - should probably do more for listing pkgs per group - not hard - just not implemented yet - should probably optionally list invisible groups. groupupdate groupname .. .. .. - attempts to update or install all the mandatory or default pkgs in a group that are installed - it does not currently recurse all the groupreqs to check for their updates but it could - would y'all want this? groupinstall groupname .. .. .. - installs all mandatory and default pkgs, all groupreqs and all default metapkgs. it also recurses the groupreqs to fulfill their mandatory and default pkgs too. other new tricks - the default is to retry all downloads 3 times in a row if there is an error. If it fails 3 times in a row then it's a real failure - thanks to michael stenner for the new urlgrabber routines. $releasever, $arch, $basearch, $YUM0 - $YUM9 - these are the variables that will be replaced in the yum.conf file. They will be replaced in any of the repository listings and in the commands = field. $YUM0 - $YUM9 are replaced by the value of the os environment variables YUM0 - YUM9 - thanks to Russ Herrold for this suggestion. Wow, the details may be too many to list - lots of fixes - read the Changelog - despite all my misc comments there is some real value in there :) The docs will be updated before long too. Let me know what breaks for you or what problems you're having. I've still got quite a lot of things on the todo list but it's getting there. -sv
