On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, seth vidal wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I've released yum 2.1.13. This fixes a lot of bugs and speeds a number > of operations up. In addition, if there is nothing horribly, horribly, > obviously, stupidly broken, then this will become 2.2.0 at some point in > the future and we'll start working on new and worrisome stuff in - > HEAD. :) Does old yum.conf have to be uninstalled and what is the procedure for a n00b using FC2? > > Tarball: > http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.13.tar.gz > > src.rpm: > http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.13-1.src.rpm > > rpm: (built on fc3) > http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.13-1.noarch.rpm > > For this release special thanks to the following folks for patches, > opinions, etc: > > Gijs Hollestelle > Paul Howarth > Jeremy Katz > Paul Nasrat > Terje Rosten > Menno Smits > Ryan Tomayko > > > Changes Summary: > - added kernel-devel to 'installonlypkgs' by default - redefine it in > your yum.conf if you'd prefer it not be there :) > - Included a number of patches from Gijs and Terje to clean up and > improve the output from yum pre and post transaction. It looks a lot > better. > - Added in Gijs patch that displays total amount of data to be > downloaded > - enabled regets for rpm downloading > - cleaned up and enabled all the proxy handling on a per-repository > basis > - Added in Menno's GPG automatic key import routines - see 'gpgkey' > in the yum.conf manpage for more information. > - made sure mirrorlists are not downloaded for disabled repositories > - added repository to transaction confirmation listing. > - packages Providing: 'kernel' or 'kernel-modules' will always be > installed, not updated > - fix for bug #386 > - fix for bug #382 > - implemented all the transactioninfo stuff - should make obsoletes > print out better now and in general make whole portions of code suck > less. > - allow group commands to use group ids not just group names - so now > you can do: 'yum grouplist base-x' instead of: > 'yum grouplist "X Window System"'. You can, of course, mix them up, > too. > - use hdr index to grab headers from the rpmdb - much much much faster. > - 'python /path/to/site-packages/yum/config.py /some/yum.conf' will now > do a readable output of your config settings and all repos > - lots of man page fixes from Menno. > > There are a number of other misc changes - but these are the > big/interesting things. See the changelog for all the details. > > So check this out, see if it breaks. Let me know what goes 'boom'. > > Thanks to all the folks who sent patches and spent some time arguing > with me over the right way to do things. This release is cool b/c of all > the patches I've gotten and good and reasonable discussion on yum-devel > list about how to do things better. > > Thanks, > -sv > > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.4 - Release Date: 1/25/05
