On 12/16/2010 06:43 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > 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 don't think this is "pushing the issue onto the user". I'd consider this to be warning them about "you might be doing something unwise". > 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. Yes, this would also be an alternative, except that one also would have to take users into account who run "plain DVD Fedora w/o updates" and use-cases which run entirely off-line. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
