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Karanbir Singh <[log in to unmask]>
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Karanbir Singh <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:17:11 +0000
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi All,
> I know there is alot more mail on this list than usual, but I finally 
> see the 5Client and 5Server directories ... so I know things are close.
> 
> I was thinking of changing the yum-conf rpm structure a bit to make it 
> more flexible.
> Right now yum-conf has the cronjob, the /etc/yum.conf, logrotate, and 
> such, and it also has alot of yum repo's in /etc/yum.repos.d/.  It has 
> the core one's, as well as dag, dries, atrpm's and others.
> 
> I wanted to split the repositories out more.  So that there is
> yum-conf
> and yum-conf requires a yum-conf-base
> and there is a
> yum-conf-sl which provides yum-conf-base
> and there there are the rest
> yum-conf-dag
> yum-conf-atrpms
> yum-conf-flash
> 
> This would allow us to make things more flexible.
> 
> The downside is that the user wouldn't just automatically have atrpms 
> and dag, there would be an extra step to get them.
> 
> Do you think this will be too confusing?

Considering everyone has moved to including the yumconfigs in the 
-release package, I wonder why you are still shipping alternate yumconf 
packages?

- KB
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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