On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 12/16/2010 06:26 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Just a thought: How about equipping a repo's metadata with some sort of
>> "expiration"/"best before" date, which yum etc. could use to
warn users?
>> If we had something like this, system-auto-death etc. would become
>> superfluous.
>>
>
> it would mean we'd have to be able/willing to push new metadata out to
> the base repo so that the repo could be used at all for future installs.
Not necessarily - Yum could simply issue a warning and continue to
work, yum could have a --disable-expiration-warnings option, ...
There are many possibilities
Rather than push the issue onto the user, I think the right solution
would be for the "fedora" repo definition to have an option
"updated_by=updates" that causes yum not to check its expiration when
the "updates" repo is also enabled.
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Matt