On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 15:03 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:33:55AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Hi All, > > Yum 2.1.8 is available. This is not feature complete for the 2.1 series > > - NOTE 2.1.X is a devel series of functional releases. When it reaches > > feature-parity with 2.0.X it will become 2.2. We're very close now. > > o will a feature complete yum 2.2.0 make it for FC3? Official devel > freeeze is tomorrow. no, It looks like yum 2.1.10 will be the last version into FC3 for the release. > o since yum 2.2 and yum 2.0 are not compatible, there will be a > transition period for old vs new metadata. It would be nice to be > able to install both old and new yum. What's the best way to go? > Rename yum 2.0.x to "yumold"? why would you need both installed? > o should yum 2.2 perhaps become yum3 and be also called that way to > indicate the major change and allow coexitence with yum 2.0.x w/o > renaming yum 2.0.x? no. > I am mainly thinking of the current yum repos that have yum 2.0.x > clients deployed and will be migrating to the new metadata format, and > will want to have a (rather) smooth transition (e.g. offer both > formats and both clients and allow a grace period for the users to > switch). yum-arch is available in yum 2.1.9 and above. -sv
