On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 16:47 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:39:55PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
Now if we can be sure that Yum understands that .rf, .plus, ... are all the same packages, we're home free. But ... are they the same packages? This may be a dumb question, but can we be sure firefox from one repo is compatible with what a user runs? Kernel features differences, etc. For firefox, maybe the answer is yes. Does that apply generally to other packages too? Is the "unprotect" solution certain to be "generally applicable"? OTOH, that is a user administration problem, isn't it?
Actually, that is a minor issue. RPM itself has the final vote on who is the newest package. So YUM really should not worry about it. At least, I hope YUM uses rpmVersionCompare.
That leads me to another thought. Have we been seeing issues in which Yum has become a counter-productive solution? As with any tool, Yum was designed with a certain set of needs to be addressed and a certain set of condition in which it expected to operate.
Are some of the answers given for "how to do it with Yum" really a disservice? Maybe some answers should be "Forget Yum for your situation, use RPM directly"?
I only ask because we have all seen how easily we fall into the process of fitting a square peg into a round hole when all we needed to do was grab a round peg.
Rodrigo Barbosa
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