Hi folks, Yum 2.6.0 is available. This should work nicely with systems supporting python 2.3 or above and rpm 4.1.1 and above. This is a culmination of a fair bit of work from a lot of folks. Big thanks to: Jeremy Katz Paul Nasrat Menno Smits These three folks made the majority of the code commits over this development cycle and made a big impact on how things exist in yum. :) Tarball: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.6/yum-2.6.0.tar.gz Source rpm: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.6/yum-2.6.0-1.src.rpm Notable Changes: Most of the changes in this cycle were to stamp down on the api a bit to make it less ugly and to make sure that things worked for yum to be used as the backend for Anaconda. The most disruptive change is that the comps/groups format is completely changed from that in 2.4.X. So if you're using 2.4.X and you're using groups then you will find a number of group operations won't act the same in 2.6.0. Be aware of this. Menno and Paul did some lovely work cleaning up the code in the configuration handling. Most of this is not user-visible but it makes for code that is a lot easier to interact with. These are just a few of the changes. See the ChangeLog in the release for more information. Let us know what breaks and thanks! -sv
