[Yum-devel] releases and scms

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Jul 20 17:20:40 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:05:29AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >Will this fall back gracefully in the case where one is using, for example,
> >rpm-4.4.2-37.el5? Or will the new RPM be required?
> The patch I sent didn't have a fallback, but it was only to demonstrate 
> what sort of change is involved ("if <cond>: exit" in download callbacks 
> basically). Graceful fallback to older rpm's is easily accomplished though 
> by just checking if the necessary symbols exist in rpm bindings or not.

I'd really, really, really appreciate it if the released version has that.
Thanks!

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