On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:02, Matthias Saou wrote: > seth vidal wrote : > > > sure - you have more than one rpm that provides a certain pkgname for a > > certain arch in your repository path. So yum-arch is looking at them to > > see which one is newer and warning you about it to let you know you need > > to clean out your cruft. > > > > This behavior will be changing in the future as yum-arch will be keeping > > track of all versions of cruft you have available on a repository. > > ...which will be a nice feature, as it will allow managing kernel module > packages for more than one installed kernel, not just the most recent > available. > A nice guy named javier (who never includes his last name) sent me some patches that I plan to read through very soon. I believe some of this part is being addressed by his patches. (he's provided some really handy patches in the past, too) Some semantics will have to change I think - but not in horrible ways. I expect to be making a yum 2.0.1 todo list shortly and a yum 2.1.0 lists too - 2.1.0 is where all the more-serious breakage will occur - restructuring the versions is what I call more-serious breakage. -sv
