On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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?) Not on your best day. EPEL draws from the Fedora world: I've submitted and gotten a few packages through there, and they very understandably *will not* replace system packages for the basic release for our favorite upstream vendor. Repoforge *might*, in the "extras" repository, but yum is such a core package that if I were Dag Weiers, I'd be really, really scared of taking on support for that. (I met him in England a few years back, at a Linux conference: nice guy.)