[Yum] Feature request(s)

Garrick Staples garrick at usc.edu
Wed Oct 8 22:54:33 UTC 2003


On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:40:52PM -0400, Jeremy Katz alleged:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:28, Christopher C. Weis wrote:
> > 2) The ability to download, but not install, RPMs, using Yum.
> 
> To throw my $0.02 out there for the heck of it.  
> 
> I think this is an option that has very little use.  FTP clients, web
> browsers, and mirroring programs all exist for a reason.  I have yet to
> see a convincingly good reason as to why a package updater should
> replicate this functionality.
> 
> I've heard a few reasons, and all of them seem ... questionable, at
> least to me.  Here's the sample of the ones I remember:
> 1) "I want to evaluate the package before I install it" -- I fail to see
> how having a binary package can help with that.  Downloading the src.rpm
> and diffing the contents, sure.  But not the binary RPM.  Changelogs
> don't nearly have the information you want here.
> 2) "I want to test it on another box first" -- Why not use yum on the
> other box and download it and test it there.  
> 3) "I don't trust the code which installs packages" -- Then stop using
> it.
> 4) "Other programs that update packages have it" -- Some of them have
> also corrupted rpmdbs in the past, that doesn't mean it's a good idea ;)

5) I want to install the rpm with a different root.
6) I want to grab a single file out of the rpm.
7) I want to inspect the scripts and possibly install it with --noscripts.



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