[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add distro-sync command, to "force update" to the latest versions.

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:27 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Antill wrote:
> 
> > This should be safe to go in for 3.2.27, as it's an entirely self
> > contained command ... I've tried it here going on multiple directions,
> > and it WMF(tm).
> 
> 
> Two things that bug me here:
> 
> 1. why isn't distroSyncPkgs something off of yumbase instead of 
> YumBaseCli? Doesn't it seem reasonable for that to be an api call?

 The only reason I put it there was APIness ... I didn't want to commit
enough to put it in YumBase, yet. Eg. unlike update/install/downgrade it
doesn't take a po as an arg. and thus. can't deal with local pkgs etc.

> 2.  What comes out of turning obsoletes off? What's the situation where 
> that's going to end well?

 I guess the same as update :). I don't mind if you want to always turn
obsoletes processing on.