On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:00:53AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote: > Matthew Booth wrote: >> The separate updates directory has been a pain for as long as I've >> been using RHL/Fedora Core/Fedora. It means you have two places to >> look when searching for packages manually, and twice as much to >> configure when you're configuring yum. It has never benefitted me, or >> anybody I know, but it has caught me out on any number of occasions. >> What's more, nobody really seems to know why it's like that: it seems >> it's always been that way, and nobody ever bother to fix it. >> >> So lets fix it. The package set at release time is only interesting to >> historians. If any of them are really that bothered, I'm sure somebody >> can come up with a yum module which finds the oldest available version >> of a package in a repo. >> >> Matt > Would not this also provide the minor added benefit that there could now > be a drpm for the first update for a package? We already have that if the update is done after GA. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
