On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Troy Dawson wrote: > Howdy, > As I'm going through my list of packages we've added, I'm sometimes making > decisions about what to update to the latest release, versus staying at what > we already have. > Since we are an enterprise release, I'm thinking I should tend to stick where > we are unless there are new drivers or something. But just incase, I'm going > to send the list here, and if anyone want's something upgrade (or not > upgraded) please let me know, along with a reason why so I 'll know for next > time. <snip> ... > yumex - ?? - > - update it if centos has updated it. > > If you have any opions on any of these, please let me know. Thursday I am > going through the list and does what I have written. > Troy > p.s. I'm pretty sure this list know's where my whiteboard web page is, but > just incase, here is the link > https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/rolling.whiteboard I don't use yumex much myself but I thought you may want to check if it still uses the wrong populateSack() api which doesn't work in sl51, ie calling populateSack(mdtype=...) rather than populateSack(with=...). A quick check on an sl51 box here shows just yumex and the yum changelog plugin obviously using the wrong api: $ locate .py| xargs egrep 'populateSack.*mdtype' /usr/lib/yum-plugins/changelog.py: repos.populateSack(mdtype='otherdata') /usr/share/yumex/yumapi.py: self.repos.populateSack(mdtype='filelists') /usr/share/yumex/yumapi.py: self.repos.populateSack(mdtype='otherdata') currently I hack the /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py from yum-3.0.6-3.sl.noarch to recognise either with=... or mdtype=... options, since I want the yum --changelog option to work. I'll hopefully soon be able to check on a test 5rolling install since it has a much newer yum things may be different there... -- Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/