On 12/22/2009 11:37 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote: > today I noticed that yum-priorities is not anymore in the base distribution - > a fact that seems to be well documented. However the yum-utils src rpm still > builds that package. This is an issue I hope to have fixed in the next few days ( well, before the end of this year anyway! ). We have a tree-compose script breakdown ( as in me fat fingering it ) at 5.4 release time, which meant a few yum-utils subpackages were left out. These packages are not included in the distro upstream. > Therefore I was wondering why yum-priorities is available in extras and not in > addons. Because of the above mentioned issue. > > addons >> Contains packages required in order to build the main Distribution or >> packages produced by SRPMS built in the main Distribution, but not included >> in the main Red Hat package tree (mysql-server in CentOS-3.x falls into >> this category). Packages contained in the addons repository should be >> considered essentially a part of the core distribution, but may not be in >> the main Red Hat Package tree. > > However the addons repo is completely empty for CentOS 5.4. Does that mean > addons is deprecated? for x86_64 and i386, yes its not used at all. -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc