On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:40:49AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Already done a few thread steps above (requoted the part). It's not > > server-side, that's easy. It's ensuring that the client side will > > work, and also that it won't break all repos. If freshrpms upgrades > > yum to yum-2.1.x or yum-2.2, a lot of freshrpms users will find that > > their other "old" yum repos are dead, and they won't have a handle to > > use them. > > Except that I went around to all of the major repository maintainers and > in most cases convinced them to run createrepo on their repositories. Interesting, I have never heard of that action, and I also find that most repos I currently use lack the new metadata structures. Well, I guess you will have this all sorted out. I was just trying to be constructive. If my arguments don't convince, that's OK, at least they were heard ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20041019/4c9f4bd7/attachment.bin
