On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:49:54PM -0500, Alec T. Habig wrote:
> Konstantin Olchanski writes:
> > I can report that all these packages are defective in different
> > ways. (the CERN version is the least broken).
> 
> Speaking as the maintainer of yum-cron before it got subsumed back into
> yum proper, several if not all of the bugs you mention got fixed.  Note
> that SL6 is based on an ancient version of fedora: grabbing the yum-cron
> package from a newer version of fedora could help (or at lease expose
> more tools for your own tweaking).
>

Right, I see - thank you for your information!

If the latest yum is so much better than the one shipped with RHEL,
is there any chance of getting the latest yum into/through/via EPEL6?

(does anybody know how packages get *into* EPEL?)

K.O.



> 
> Hopefully we've got any yum version dependencies built into the rpms, so
> you'll know when you try to install if features have evolved past the
> point where it just won't work with the yum on your system.  Sorry I
> can't be more specfic, but it could be worth taking a look at the
> package changelog to see if your issues have been addressed.  And that
> changelog ceased to have meaning after the package rejoined yum itself,
> I'm afraid, as subpackages don't get their own changelogs anymore :(
> 
> Looks like yum-cron-0.9.2 was the last version before assimilation, and
> I strongly suspect that using a current Fedora yum as a whole will
> plunge your system into dependancy hell (based on python versions if
> nothing else).
> 
> 	Alec
> 
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