[Yum-devel] yum 2.1.7

[seth vidal]

Hi All,
 Yum 2.1.7 is available. This is not feature complete for the 2.1 series
- NOTE 2.1.X is a devel series of functional releases. When it is
feature complete for release it WILL become 2.2.

Tarball:
 http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.7.tar.gz

src.rpm:
 http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.7-1.src.rpm

noarch.rpm - built on fedora core 2(ish):
  http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.7-1.noarch.rpm

Thanks:
 A number of people contributed patches and files to make this release
function. I really appreciate it. They are (in no particular order):
- Ryan Tomayko
- Michael Stenner
- Menno Smits
- Paul Nasrat
- Gijs Hollestelle
- Konstantin Ryabitsev
Thanks folks!

Changes:
- more clean ups on the pickling/metadata caching code
- implemented yum makecache. It will make the pickles of all the
metadata for all enabled repositories - handy as a cron job to run at
night when you're not using the machine.
- timeout option in any repository - this is a timer for how long
urlgrabber will let a socket wait before killing it and declaring it
dead. :) - This will only work with python 2.3 and above systems.

- implemented yum group*
  group commands are: grouplist, groupinfo, groupinstall, groupupdate, 
                      groupremove
- yum generate-rss now takes an optional 'updates' argument. This will
tell it to output an rss xml file of the updates needed for your system.
  - Special Bonus - first person to write a gnome applet that reads this
file and changes the display when new packages are available, wins my
thanks :)
- Lots of Misc bugs fixed


Let me know what's broken in bugzilla, preferably.

thanks
-sv