Hi,
The discussion has come up several times about what to do about updates like 
cups for SL 4.  I've thought about Stephan's scripts, and putting in an epoch, 
or just redoing them all with a new name.  But in the end, I think the solution 
that will cause the least amount of pain for people will be a yum plugin.

I/We can write a plugin for yum, and we'd distribute it to SL 4.0-4.5.
The plugin would have a list of rpm's, and if it saw them, it would somehow 
demote that rpm, so that the rpm that is really newer would be seen and installed.

So if we take cups for example.
If yum is going along, and it sees that you have cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.2 
installed.  It will know that it should demote it somehow, and then when it 
see's cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.6 it will think that it is newer and 
install it.

The reason I'm thinking a yum plugin is the right way to go is because it can 
be put in, and taken out.  I think once everyone get's to SL 4.6, I *hope* that 
we have all the rpm's fixed up correctly and this plugin won't be needed anymore.

Any idea's and/or thoughts?
Troy
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