What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 20:32:01 UTC 2008


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>> That doesn't sound like something that scales very well.  Can I get the
>> package set I want by excluding all other possibilities?
> 
> config files on client systems don't scale?
> 
> exclude as a directive not flexible enough for you?
> 
> man yum.conf search for includepkgs
> 
> instead of excluding the world, you can include narrowly..as narrowly
> as you want...on a per repository basis... on a per client system
> basis.

More to the point, how can I expect this to work after the thing I want 
goes away in the repository, replaced by a mistaken push of something 
broken?  I think it is unreasonable to assume that such mistakes will 
never happen.  What's the plan to avoid/recover from this?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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