[Yum-devel] Prefer ppc64 config option/plugin

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 12:14:12 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> okay the bestarch/basearch/compatarch stuff:
>>
>> here's what has to happen - all of this needs to be in the archstorage
>> class. That way it can be redefined in runtime w/o worrying about what
>> it was elsewhere.
>>
>> So the trick is going through yum and finding all the places we refer to
>> these functions and making them use similar results/items from
>> ArchStorage()
>>
>> I think I'd be happy with a patch like that. It seems clean and
>> consistent w/what else we're doing.
>>
>>  James, what do you think?
>
>  Yeh, I'm fine with it ... although we then need some way to "configure"
> the results. Which I guess we do around "yb.conf" init. time.

I'll try to take a look at this in my spare time, but to be honest it
will take me a while to understand what you're talking about.
Particularly the stuff Panu mentioned.

Anyway, I am interested in a solution for this so I just wanted to let
you know I didn't run away screaming (yet).

josh


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