[Yum-devel] update nags in yum

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jan 2 13:55:20 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:47:53AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> I had a silly thought as the year ticked over last night. - Would it
> make sense for us to put in an update nag for yum in yum with a hard
> date in it. So, for example, if 3.2.12 is released in march 2008, we
> have a check in the startup of the code that says 'if the date is >
> march 2011, print out a nag warning to stderr that this version of yum
> is quite old and maybe you should look for a newer one or ask your
> distribution vendor for an update'. It'd be easy to disable, of course,
> but it might be worth while just to catch people like those we know are
> still running rhl9 or fc1.
> So, silly thought?

Sounds like a plug-in to me. :)


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