On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 16:37 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 13:33 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > > Is there any thought to a parameter to tell yum to not look at object > > more recent than xx days. Often times (as exemplified by a recent bad > > patch with UBUNTU and with Fedora Core6), severe implications > > occurred. In the UBUNTU case, the patch broke the GUI, while with > > Core6, it broke YUM and hence YUMEX. > > > > So, the new option could be set to only accept patches that are more > > than xx days old. > > > > What say you? > > > > What criteria would you use to judge the age of a package? > > The build time? Build time and file time are both possibilities, whether either is actually meaningful to any real situation is another question entirely :) I have a plugin to do something like this lying around someplace, can/will post here if people are interested. - Panu -
