On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 13:17 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think PackageKit / yum integration would definitely be the way to go. > > Goes back to the underlying issue... how do you notify the user that > package foo came from updates-testing X number of minutes/hours/days > of testing..after system installation..so they can report back after > those X number of minutes/hourse/days of testing? > > We don't record from which repository a package was installed from. To > know what maybe installed from testing you have to be clever and do > something like yum --disablerepo=updates-testing list extras diffed > against yum list extras. That sounds extremely ugly. I think if we want to have more metadata about packages, we should start tracking it at the appropriate level - rpm or yum should track that information. If we're not willing to do that, we shouldn't try and implement ugly hacks to generate the metadata some other way. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
