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 > > -- > Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept. > [log in to unmask] > http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/ -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada