On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 05:55 -0800, Bobby Jack wrote: > All, > > 1. Whenever I run pup or pirut, comps.xml appears to > be overwritten. Why is this? If the file is some kind > of cache, why is it constantly being written? Why > doesn't this (appear to) happen when I run yum from > the command-line? it's not cached. it's downloading it on the cli, too. it should be changed so it is cached, too. > 2. Why is the comps.xml file not validated on first > read? If it were, the nasty error below could be > replaced with something like "/var/cache/yum/extras > comps.xml file corrupt - does not validate against > comps.dtd". Of course, this isn't perfect, but it's > better than the current behaviour. it is validated but this was a bug. yum was parsing the file, it encountered the problem and it threw and exception, this was all valid behavior. The problem was twofold: 1. it really didn't need to throw the exception it could happily ignore the issue and move on. 2. nothing was catching the exception :) Now, to be fair - this has been fixed in cvs and will be available in 3.0.X and 3.1.X releases before too long. > 3. Why isn't comps.xml validated on write, most > importantly? I would have thought one of the greatest > benefits of an XML file format for pure data is that > data files can easily be validated. It would be nice > to have a mechanism to guarantee that such data files > cannot become corrupt - i.e. DTD validation. that's something to take up with fedora extras, really. It could be validated, it's just not and someone made a typo. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
