On 11/26/2005 05:33:56 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On the topic of notifications.... would it be possible for have room
in the notification metadata for a "repo notification"? When a person
Speaking generally, would it help the user experience if yum/pup could warn
the user if a package installed from repo A is about to be replaced with a
package from repo B?
This notification could come up when the user enables a repo for the first
time, and/or when the replacement is actually about to happen.
The user would ideally then be able to set a pref to be warned a) never, b)
only if a package from core is replaced, c) every time a cross-repo upgrade
is about to take place.
So that we don't break the nightly yum update, cross-repo upgrades should
get logged. If the user chooses to be warned along scenarios B or C, the log
could contain a message like "We did not upgrade package X to version Y from
repo FOO, because it was originally installed from repo BAR."
I guess the general idea is that every package gets affiliated to a
preferred repo at time of first install of that package, and users can
expect to rely on that behavior.
This would help with both the updates-testing problem that Jeff and Jeremy
are talking about, also help Willem's poblem, because neither atrpms nor
updates-testing would override packages when they shouldn't.
It would be useful (I have often wished it did) if e.g. yum list x would not
just tell me some release of x is installed, but also from which repo it came
when it was installed. But I'm not sure the rpm database contains that
information, so this may not be possible?
Thanks, Willem Riede.
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