On 12/02/2009 10:30 AM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
Matthew Booth wrote:
> The separate updates directory has been a pain for as long as I've
> been using RHL/Fedora Core/Fedora. It means you have two places to
> look when searching for packages manually, and twice as much to
> configure when you're configuring yum. It has never benefitted me, or
> anybody I know, but it has caught me out on any number of occasions.
> What's more, nobody really seems to know why it's like that: it seems
> it's always been that way, and nobody ever bother to fix it.
>
> So lets fix it. The package set at release time is only interesting to
> historians. If any of them are really that bothered, I'm sure somebody
> can come up with a yum module which finds the oldest available version
> of a package in a repo.
>
> Matt
Would not this also provide the minor added benefit that there could now
be a drpm for the first update for a package?
I like the proposal, the only drawback I found is that when a new Fedora
release is out we mirror (local) the updates repository with priority,
and the big Everything repository is mirrored using a small bandwidth
setting because it is not needed normally for the first updates (updates
that add new dependecies are not common the first weeks)
-J