[Yum-devel] Yum 2.6.0

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Mar 7 06:07:50 UTC 2006


Hi folks,
 Yum 2.6.0 is available. This should work nicely with systems supporting
python 2.3 or above and rpm 4.1.1 and above. This is a culmination of a
fair bit of work from a lot of folks.

Big thanks to:
Jeremy Katz
Paul Nasrat
Menno Smits

These three folks made the majority of the code commits over this
development cycle and made a big impact on how things exist in yum. :)

Tarball:
http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.6/yum-2.6.0.tar.gz

Source rpm:
http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.6/yum-2.6.0-1.src.rpm


Notable Changes:
Most of the changes in this cycle were to stamp down on the api a bit to
make it less ugly and to make sure that things worked for yum to be used
as the backend for Anaconda. 

The most disruptive change is that the comps/groups format is completely
changed from that in 2.4.X. So if you're using 2.4.X and you're using
groups then you will find a number of group operations won't act the
same in 2.6.0. Be aware of this.

Menno and Paul did some lovely work cleaning up the code in the
configuration handling. Most of this is not user-visible but it makes
for code that is a lot easier to interact with.

These are just a few of the changes. See the ChangeLog in the release
for more information.

Let us know what breaks and thanks!
-sv






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