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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