[Yum] state of the yum

Chris Geddings chris at geddings.org
Sat Jul 12 15:37:13 UTC 2003


Isn't RPM GPL'd?

--Chris

On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 06:59, Grigory Bakunov wrote:
> В ?? 12.07.2003, в 07:55, seth vidal пишет:
> > Hi all,
> >  I'm making a post to organize my thoughts and to let everyone know
> > where things are with yum and plans or ideas that might come out in yum.
> > 
> Hello Seth and others.
> I and some of my coworkers work on our own implementation of
> rpm updaters/installer tools in python. I very happy with yum,
> but we need to rewrite it cause license violation (out customer
> don't want to use GPL stuff in this project). Because of it i have
> idea to make document with name 'RPM repository format' witch describe
> all this folders like 'headers' and files like header.info. So it's may
> be sort of standart for 'yum and yum-compatible rpm tools'.
> Now i need to ask - did you have any plans to change format of this
> folders/files? I have some problems with current state of this file -
> for example i think it's a good idea to add field 'size of file' to
> header.info (or to separate meta.info file for example).
> 
> Sorry for my realy terrible english.




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