Hi everyone, Some interesting updates and some important things First - if you're using yum 1.96 - stop - use yum 1.97 - it removes the private rpmdb macro that was suggested to deal with rpmdb hangs. Making rpm ignore the locks for the rpmdb is bad, mmkay? But there's more in 1.97: - fixed a problem with multiple archs when dealing with multiple versions of the same pkg - a long story but the gist is - a dependency resolution problem was discovered by having some very old pkgs sitting around with some new ones and having different archs on them. Farkas Levente uncovered the problem and I eventually got it fixed. - yum grouplist [group1] [group2] etc will list the groups and all the details about the - yum grouplist will just give you a list of groups - yum grouplist hidden will make things operate on groups marked as: <uservisible>false</uservisible> in the yumgroups.xml file. - catches were added to urlgrabber for HTTP exceptions of various kinds - clean ups in yummain and rpmUtils. In general this version should be much more stable. http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/ Also - yum 1.X will be receiving an update very soon - only a few more things to apply. things that were committed to cvs: - $YUM0-$YUM9 variables for the yum.conf file - command = for yum.conf [main] - $releasever, $basearch, $arch and distroverpkg for yum.conf file - checkbootloader.py with support for raid devices was pulled back from yum 2.x branch - fixes in the dep resolution and fixes for yum-arch were applied - yum will now only download hdrs for archs useful for your platform - so no more alpha archs getting downloaded for i386 machines. :) Stuff left to do before I release 1.0.1: - urlgrabber with file:// support - update all the docs with details on the above goodies. Finally, some new meta-yum stuff: 1. bugzilla! - https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/ - please file bugs - let me know how you broke things and post yum debug output here. 2. I've got a snapshot of the cvs tree available via viewcvs right now. - a demo can be seen at: http://devel.linux.duke.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yum/ 3. as soon as I get it working safely I'll have anonymous cvs setup there as well so you people who like to attempt to run the broken code I sometimes check in, can :) Sorry this message was so long but clearly it has a lot of info. Thanks -sv
