[Yum-devel] Make running out of source tree easier

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 28 13:52:43 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 13:27 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> these patches make the yum CLI runnable directly from a checked-out source tree and 
> prefer modules in there over system ones.

 NAK. Don't use ./bin/yum when running from git, it's only there for the
python compiling ... and adding extra stat calls there so you can seems
bad (plus gives me security heebie jeebies). See the instructions here:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/SkipBroken

...I thought we had something like that on the main page too, but it
might have got accidentally deleted when we made yum-3_2_X the default
clone branch.



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