> You seem to be quite negatively charged today, I guess. I should > probably suggest the opposite of what I'd like ;) <shrug> > Anyway, changing a vital component like the metadata format of any > repo will require a transition phase, unless you consider only future > to come repos to use the new metadata format, where you don't need to > care about backwards compatibility. If you don't hint to a solution, > you will find that the repos will invent wild renaming schemes that > will make you far more unhappier than the current discussion. repos will do all sorts of broken crap no matter what I suggest. futurwe changes in the metadata format/versioning is why we have xml versioning. > And BTW, there is (vendor packaged!) python 2.2.2 available for RH7.3. > yum 2.0.x w/python2 is deployed on quite a lot of RH7.3 boxes already the rpmmodule was not included with python 2.2.2 in rhl 7.3, iirc. If a user wants to upgrade rpm, upgrade rpm-python, upgrade libxml2 and who knows what else, more power to them, I can't stop them, nor will I. But I also can't see why I should support a yum 2.0.X and a yum 2.1.X install on that system. -sv
