On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 07:17 -0600, Jima wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > 4) Usability of yum: What happens if 10% of our packages feel they need
> > to give yum an upstream repo file? Suddenly, there's 100+ repo files
> > that yum has to deal with. If they're all enabled then yum has to
> > download primary.xml files from all of them.
>
> You left out "assuming the server hosting the repo is up." Fedora has a
> nice distributed network of mirrors -- does clement? I don't want my yum
> session bombing out because Joe Random's colo happens to be out of
> commission.
You are absolutely right.... But may I suggest you missed
my point altogether....
Clement is not the issue...
The issue is to have in 2 year from now an FC6 in production,
everything is perfect ("if it is working, do not fix it"), but
you still want to keep up-to-date 2 or 3 critical application
(from your production stand-point).
YUM and it is repository system is now a standard.
By setting the clement repos definition , I tried to provide
a way to conveniently go beyond the normal FCX life
cycle. In fact I am trying to resolve a problem of my own
occuring when I want to keep some package Alive (I know some
customer site still running (happily) a RH-6.1 for almost 6 year
now).
If, I as provider/designer, I am willing to provide application
X from RH-7.3 -> to XXXX, it is my decision. Having a convenient
yum backup repos implemented within the application seems
to me a solution (may be there is better way (still to
define?)).
According my understanding of the exchange on this topics,
providing a easy/standardized way to go beyond a normal
linux distribution life cycle is out of question.
Fine to me, but then FC-X is a nice piece of artwork,
but not a distribution to be used for production grad.
(May be RedHat like it that way).
> I support the notion that packages shouldn't ship (and certainly
[...]
>
> say on that). Just keep it out of /etc/yum.repos.d/. I don't care how
> confusing it might be to enable it -- how confused do you think we were
> when we discovered (twice!) that you did such an outlandish thing?
First time I was not advised, if it was that terrible, you
should have let me know, too bad for you.
>
> Jima
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