[Fedora-livecd-list] SRPMS for installed RPMs?

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:06:26 +0200
> Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
> 
>> For composing tools with just kickstart configuration, I guess yum
>> plugins such as protectbase and fastestmirror are out-of-scope now,
>> would it be worth something to keep these in mind nonetheless?
>> (--protect?) Other directives such as includepkgs or exclude could
>> become worthwhile at some point, too.
> 
> Yes, there is value in extending the repo attributes in pykickstart.
> I've discussed it some with Chris, at least the idea of --exclude and
> --includepkgs and what they would actually mean in the grand scheme of
> figuring out the package set.  He didn't seem greatly opposed, so long
> as we keep the semantics clear.
> 
> As for plugins, that's a larger question to answer.  We may need a
> plugin to accomplish multilib installs by default in say Fedora 9 as
> we're discussing taking multilib resolution out of the hands of the
> compose tools and putting it into the hands of the system actually
> installing packages so that said system can define what multilib
> strategy they wish to follow.  So if this goes through, there would be
> some precedence for using yum plugins at install time.  How this would
> be accomplished sanely and extendably I know not.  A conversation for
> another day.
> 

F9 FUDCon here we come ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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