-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEqXRDpdyWzQ5b5ckRAv83AJ0XlqYJ14BdWrbbMq0UFUKeHPB7+ACggazQ o3th5oCwZo5aViXI5cj7xZE= =vNp9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----