Karanbir Singh napsal(a):

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please include yum-plugin-installonlyn package in Extras. This plugin is a part of yum-2.6 in Fedora Core 5 and works great:

cool, we'll get it in for 4.4 release time, iirc - we already have testing packages for this.

Well, I was just reinventing the wheel.... D.

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 06:35:23AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:11 +0200, Milan Keršláger wrote:

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please include yum-plugin-installonlyn package in Extras. This plugin is a part of yum-2.6 in Fedora Core 5 and works great:

http://ftp.pslib.cz/pub/users/Milan.Kerslager/RHEL-4/stable/SRPMS/yum-plugin...

This is already in the yum-utils package that is in the extras repository. It is just not built as a separate package.

There are instructions on how to enable it in /usr/share/doc/yum- utils-0.5/plugins/README.centos

I guess that we could split it out and make it a standalone package.

Or better follow Fedora Core and put it into the yum package.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:57:47AM +0100, Karanbir Singh enlightened us:

Milan Ker?láger wrote:

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http://ftp.pslib.cz/pub/users/Milan.Kerslager/RHEL-4/stable/SRPMS/yum-plugin...

This is already in the yum-utils package that is in the extras repository. It is just not built as a separate package.

There are instructions on how to enable it in /usr/share/doc/yum- utils-0.5/plugins/README.centos

I guess that we could split it out and make it a standalone package.

Or better follow Fedora Core and put it into the yum package.

we could pull it into the main package, but it would need to stay disabled - its too major a change in functionality to throw at people midway during the release.

I am going to vote for a seperate package instead - that can be installed directly, so something in CentOS-Extras.

That makes the most sense to me. In CentOS 5 it could be folded back into the main package if desired for closer tracking of FC without causing too much of a disruption.

Matt

Milan Keršláger wrote:

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I guess that we could split it out and make it a standalone package.

Or better follow Fedora Core and put it into the yum package.

we could pull it into the main package, but it would need to stay disabled - its too major a change in functionality to throw at people midway during the release.

It is not needed. Updates brings change in functionality every time are released (even from upstream).

This is security enhancement also. Imagine that system boot with older kernel by mistake - this open the door for script kiddies (or hackers).

you have a valid point in that its a new point release, and its ok to add functionality this way, BUT the issue is that there are admins out there who would rely on having a stable distro - where functionality to automatically start removing stuff does not get introduced midway.

And that is where my issue is - I dont want to introduce something middway that will start removing packages automatically.

So put it in and don't ask. Only write about it in the release info.

we can mention the availability of this plugin in the release notes, would you like to do a small writeup of maybe 1 paragraph on this ? we can then include that into the release notes perhaps ?

If the other centos developers agree, I see no harm in adding some info about the existance of this plugin and what it would achieve.