[CentOS-devel] Type conversion in some yum utils

Thu Jun 14 21:40:12 UTC 2007
Daniel de Kok <danieldk at pobox.com>

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:12 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:49:15AM +0200, Daniel de Kok enlightened us:
> > [Taking this to a public list.]
> > 
> > Could you apply the attached patch (per Matt Hyclak) to yum-utils for
> > CentOS 4? This is necessary to have reposync and a couple of other
> > utilities working well with yum 2.4 + yum-metadata-parser.
> > 
> > References:
> > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2007-May/009874.html
> > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2007-June/009881.html
> > 
> 
> It might also be worth looking at the additional patches Daniel Berrange
> submitted to reposync while we're at it. See the thread starting at 
> 
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2007-May/009860.html

These are very useful changes. I guess it's best to let them cook in
upstream CVS for a bit more.

-- Daniel