[Yum-devel] Re: [yum-cvs] yum cli.py, 1.241.2.8, 1.241.2.9 yum-updatesd.py, 1.22.2.9, 1.22.2.10 yum.spec, 1.83.2.3, 1.83.2.4 yummain.py, 1.100.2.3, 1.100.2.4

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jan 30 22:04:24 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 11:35 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Do we really want to be making a change like this in a stable release?
> > It feels like a pretty big compatibility break to me and definitely not
> > the sort of thing that makes sense for 3.0.x.
> > 
> > Potentially _supporting_ the new locations in addition as well is
> > sensible, but changing the default just feels like it's going to break
> > things.  Think about, eg, repositories that ship a package with a repo
> > config file -- now where do they put it?  It depends on if they're using
> > yum 3.0.3 or 3.0.4.
> 
> I think that makes more sense to me; I may have just misinterpreted the
> TODO item. If the consensus is to simply support the new locations, then
> all that really needs to be modified from this commit is to revert the
> docs, spec, and Makefile changes, which I can do tonight.
> 

my comments were on irc - in short:
3.0.X: support the new location, default to the old location
HEAD: support the old location, default to the new location

that way we don't break people just for kicks.

-sv





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