[Yum] Enhancing the potential of yum to support commercial enterprise...

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 20:28, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On 7 Aug 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > >   b) A fully userspace mode, that uses rpm's --relocate feature to
> > > install rpm's built to be relocatable into paths in the user's
> > > personally writeable space.  This latter would enable yum to be used by
> > > vendors to distribute and update valuable data to ordinary users --
> > > together with a) in a controlled and accountable way.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 1. --relocate is broken.
> > 2. most pkgs will break for it even if they were built right
> > 3. this is crackrock.
> 
>  4. sigh.

Keep in mind - juggling dependencies for a single system and single
database is hard enough. Doing it for 2 gets dramatically harder and
relocatable binaries are difficult to make on their best day.

-sv