On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:09:41AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthew Booth (mbooth@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > 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. > > The separate Everything tree that does not get obsoleted is required > in some form for GPL compliance, with respect to the ISO images that > we ship. Any new solution would have to preserve this. Might there also be export compliance implications too? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
