system-config-packages problems

[seth vidal]

> A couple of quick questions about system-config-packages...
> 
> First of all, the version that comes installed FC2 Test 1 is 
> system-config-packages-1.9.3-2.1  yet the latest version in rawhide is 
> system-config-packages-1.2.10-1.    I am guessing that the version 1.9 
> is numbered erroneously (as all previous releases were in the 1.2 tree), 
> but since it is labled as a later version than the current one; up2date, 
> yum, and rpm will not install the current version (without manually 
> specifying --oldpackage).  Is this an error that needs to be  fixed?
> 
> Secondly, can anyone at all make system-config-packages add an 
> additional package that was not originally installed during the initial 
> setup?  Bugs 116920, 118852, 115630, and 118517 all basically boil down 
> to the same problem, and that is that system-config-packages simply 
> errors out after selecting a package to add.   This occurs in both 
> 1.9.3-2.1 and 1.2.10-1

To be honest, after the next major release of yum I'd like to see
system-config-packages be a gui on top of yum. I think it would be a
good fit and I've been working on the yum HEAD branch to make that
possible.

still a fair bit of work to go but it's a goal I'd like to reach.

-sv