On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:31 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 19:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le lundi 12 mai 2008 à 13:03 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway a écrit : > > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:29 -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote: > > > > > > > A page detailing the reasons for keeping the exception is now up on the > > > > wiki: > > > > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeepakBhole/ReasonsForKeepingJPP > > > > > > Deepak, thanks for writing that up. Seth Vidal has helped me come up > > > with a technical solution that should meet the requirements described in > > > your document. > > > > > > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/exclude-by-group/ > > > > > > This is a very simple yum plugin that enables the user to exclude by RPM > > > Group tag. > > > > Uh, that's pretty hideous, I thought we were working hard at killing the > > group tag altogether, not adding new deps on it. Plus before it works it > > would require a full rebuild of the java repository to put the right > > group on every package. > > Yeah, but we'd want that rebuild anyways to drop the .jpp tag. I'm not > convinced that this is any more "hideous" than the .jpp release naming > exception (in fact, I think it is far nicer). > > > Can't yum use the Vendor tag instead? That wouldn't be such a kludge, > > and I think Vendor already identifies a unique repository provider in > > existing packages. > > Unfortunately, in Fedora packages, Vendor gets set to Fedora Project for > everything, which wouldn't help in excluding the Java JPackage derived > packages living in Fedora. > If it is helpful I can modify the plugin to do exclude-by-provides or other such nonsense. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
