[Yum-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add upgrade_requirements_on_install config. Based on idea by Michael Schwendt.

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 19 21:35:19 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 16:59 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 16:41 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> > The idea is that sometimes you want to say "make sure the entire
> > dep. tree for package XYZ is at the latest version". This affects
> > install/upgrade/update/upgrade-to/reinstall. yum command only.
> 
> we talked about this before - but one bit which gives me pause is the
> 'yum command only'.
> 
> I could see someone using the api wanting to enable this...

 They can always copy and paste the code, and we can move it into
__init__ too at a later point.
 I'm just not dying to add more public APIs or make install()/etc. more
complicated until we need to.



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