Re: kernel-devel: should yum install, not update?

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > It has often been suggested to add a new rpm tag for this
> > purpose. E.g. you could have
> >
> > UpdateMode: (installation|alwaysupgrade)
> >
> > or
> >
> > AutoUpgrade: no
> >
> > rpm 4.4 would be a good candidate to get this in.
>
> Not going to happen in rpm-4.4, or in *.rpm packaging.
>
> There is no way for the packager to determine how a package should be 
> installed on client machines, and so the value needs to be dynamic, not 
> static, configuration on the install, not the build, machine.

How about putting this info into rpm *configuration*, instead of each and 
every depsolver's config? The downside of that is of course that 
customizing your favorite depsolver now consists of tweaking more than 
just depsolver configuration, but at least
a) rpm could ship with reasonable defaults for the distro
b) we'd have one definite place where this is set

The depsolvers would only need to switch from their internal mechanisms to 
looking up the configuration from rpm which should be easy enough, rpm 
itself would need some further modification if it's to honor the config.

Me, I don't personally much care where that info comes from...

	- Panu -