Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 1 23:01:25 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:49 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > * Les Mikesell [02/04/2008 00:27] :
> >> I specifically complained about the version in FC6, but the reason it
> >> matters is that I have a large number of an equivalent version in Centos
> >> that I'll have to put up with for years.
> >
> > Have you tried asking the CentOS guys to update their yum package?
>
> The CentOS policy is to maintain strict and exact compatibility with
> their upstream "famous North American distribution" that won't let them
> mention their name. So it will update when you-know-who updates - which
> by policy isn't likely to be until the next major release.
>
Then you aren't being a good sysadmin and following the betas of the
server operating systems you run.
-sv
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