On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/16/2010 06:26 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> Just a thought: How about equipping a repo's metadata with some sort of > >> "expiration"/"best before" date, which yum etc. could use to warn users? > >> If we had something like this, system-auto-death etc. would become > >> superfluous. > >> > > > > it would mean we'd have to be able/willing to push new metadata out to > > the base repo so that the repo could be used at all for future installs. > Not necessarily - Yum could simply issue a warning and continue to > work, yum could have a --disable-expiration-warnings option, ... > > There are many possibilities Rather than push the issue onto the user, I think the right solution would be for the "fedora" repo definition to have an option "updated_by=updates" that causes yum not to check its expiration when the "updates" repo is also enabled. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
