All,
What do people think about modifying the default yum.conf file to contain the following:
plugins=1
This is an essential setting if people want to install the 2 "extras" plugins yum-plugin-fastestmirror and yum-plugin-priorities (both of which I highly recommend).
CentOS currently ships with no plugins setting yum.conf, and the default is 0. If installing plugins, this setting must be manually added to yum.conf.
This is documented in the readme's for the plugins, in the "installing software with yum" guide in CentOS Docs, and on the CentOS wiki ... however people still mess up their machines because they install the plugins, do not set the setting, and do upgrades.
There are no plans to ship any plugins in the default CentOS-4, however I think it would be good to turn on the "plugins=1" setting by default. That way when people install plugins, they will work without requiring mods to yum.conf. I think that is what most users expect, as it has been the default in Fedora Core since at least FC3 and it is the default in RHEL 5 beta 2.
What does everyone else think?
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:57:32 -0500 "Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
What does everyone else think?
Sounds reasonable to me.
AOL. It makes yum more predictable. And since the plugins are in Extras, the user already has to enable a plugin explicitly by installing it.
-- Daniel
On 12/23/06, Daniel de Kok daniel-lists@taickim.com wrote:
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:57:32 -0500 "Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
What does everyone else think?
Sounds reasonable to me.
AOL. It makes yum more predictable. And since the plugins are in Extras, the user already has to enable a plugin explicitly by installing it.
-- Daniel
I agree with Daniel.
--- Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
What does everyone else think?
Sounds reasonable to me.
I agree If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are going to use it, Centos should use it too :-)
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Roger PeXa Escobio wrote:
--- Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
What does everyone else think?
Sounds reasonable to me.
I agree If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are going to use it, Centos should use it too :-)
RHEL has no yum, and Fedora's yum has nothing to do with what we use.
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 01:37 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Roger PeXa Escobio wrote:
--- Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
What does everyone else think?
Sounds reasonable to me.
I agree If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are going to use it, Centos should use it too :-)
RHEL has no yum, and Fedora's yum has nothing to do with what we use.
RHEL5b2 does and plugins are on there.
-sv
seth vidal wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 01:37 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Roger PeXa Escobio wrote:
--- Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
What does everyone else think?
Sounds reasonable to me.
I agree If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are going to use it, Centos should use it too :-)
RHEL has no yum, and Fedora's yum has nothing to do with what we use.
RHEL5b2 does and plugins are on there.
right, but these are changes being proposed in CentOS-4
- KB
David Hrbáč wrote:
Jim Perrin napsal(a):
Sounds reasonable to me.
To me too. I'd like to see yum-plugin-fastestmirror and fasttrack repo enabled by default too.
considering the fasttrack released packages are not officially supported, Vendors are quite right in not expecting them to be installed. That repo should not be enabled by default. If and when they do make it into release, the packages make their way down to the base os repo anyway.
Its a user choice to make, they must have the option and an opt-in is, imho, the way to make that work.
To me too. I'd like to see yum-plugin-fastestmirror and fasttrack repo enabled by default too.
I disagree with this part. Plugins should be set enabled by default only because no plugins ship with yum, and a user must enable the Extras (or other repo) to get them.
The default repositories are fine, and while the fasttrack repository is certainly a good thing, it should not be the default, as it is not enabled by default upstream either, and some packages in fasttrack may change before they actually make it to the base/updates repositories.
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