Troy Dawson wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:46:45PM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>> I've been working on the kernel module plugin for SL 4.5.
>>> I like Axel's kmdl plugin so much I simply tossed the old plugin and 
>>> started fresh with his.  But there were a few points I changed.
>>> My goal is to get the plugin to work in the same manner for 
>>> kernel-modules for S.L. 3.0.x.
>>
>> How about having both in the same plugin code? It will be easier to
>> maintain (I'm currently working on fixing a possible bug with yum
>> remove). All there needs to be done is to check for both formats and
>> then try to install both variants and whatever succeeds.
>>
> 
> I could give that a try.  It shouldn't be hard since we have both ways 
> to check in the two plugins.
> 
>> Or we could outcast some bits like the regex to match on and what to
>> pull in to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/kmdl.conf. That would be cleaner.
> 
> I like having them both in, I'll give it a try.
> 
> Troy

Oh, and I'm going to try this with yum 2.6.x, since it already has the 
yum remove function in it.

I'm trying to remember and I'm going to look through the documentation, 
but is there a reason we shouldn't go to 2.6.x on SL4?  I know yum 3.x 
has some major changes, but shouldn't 2.6.x work fine?

Troy
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