On 11/28/2004 06:53:46 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
Ok, this has come up several times and I should make a FAQ out of it.
Why
do people assume that the repository maintainer should be appointed of
the
burden of managing 2 or more repositories to just fullfil the way
users
want to use a repository ?
You shouldn't in an ideal world.
To me, this should be a feature of Yum and Apt.
I agree.
I think rpm and/or repo software should alert a user when a package installed from one source is cued to be replace by another.
David Parsley (of TaoLinux fame) has a patch for Yum that exactly allows to protect the base system (core packages). You can say, this and this repository I consider the core repository and it will never allow to replace a package from these by one from another repository.
I like the sound of that.
The implementation at this point has 1 problem case (when a non core package requires a core package), that will probably never get fixed since Seth (author of Yum) made it clear he was not interested in this feature and David sees no use in making it work for 100% if it will never get merged anyway.
That's too bad - I like the sound of that, it's a safety feature for the user. Maybe if seth doesn't want it in yum, Fedora could add it themselves to their yum.
