[WBEL-users] More yum mirrors?

[Kirby Bohling]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:19:35AM -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> Lamar Owen said:
> > On Monday 26 April 2004 22:37, John Morris wrote:
> >> Release an up2date that has those
> >> features along with the U2 packageset and make darned sure it is working
> >> for the respin.  Then it will only be a matter of getting the existing
> >> systems to copy the .rpmnew version into place.
> >
> > Once you have tested the mirror mechanism, getting the new configset into
> > place is as simple as dropping the (noreplace) from the %config directive
> > in
> > the spec file's %files list.  Then on the next release you put it back in.
> 
> I for one would be very ticked off if the up2date package hijacks my
> well-configured sources file.
> 
> Remember, yum and apt are supported now, so assuming that only the
> official repos are configured is a bad assumption.

Look the RPM database has the original MD5SUM and the time
datestamp.  Use rpm -v, if the file hasn't changed in any way since
the last time, then update it to the new RPM.  If it has changed,
then do nothing.  Still in install the file as an .rpmsave or
.rpmorig or whatever it is they do.  I'm not sure how exactly to
pull that off, but it should be possible to do (my RPM-foo is pretty
low).

	Thus people who blindly pull updates will migrate to a different
set of mirrors.  The people who actively maintain their up2date/yum
config files probably have, or will address this as soon as
possible.

	It's not unheard of for RPM's to move config files if you
upgrading to an incompatible config file system.  I know I've seen
it done a handful of times.

	Thanks,
		Kirby

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