[Yum-devel] yum 2.5.0

[Brian Long]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 03:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote:

> Changes:
>  - comps is completely changed - do not bank on your existing
> comps.xml/yumgroups.xml files working as you expect them to. see
> yum/comps.py for info on the new format. The format is still in flux a
> bit - so expect some breakage here in the future.

I assume this is in line with comps changes upcoming in Fedora Core and
future versions of RHEL, correct?  If so, I assume that means yum-2.5
and 2.6 will require us to rerun createrepo -g if we are using comps
groups today with yum-2.2 and 2.4.  I believe this also means we will
not be able to mix yum 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 against the same repos.

I guess when yum-2.6 is released I could rebuild my RHEL 3 and 4 repos
using a newer createrepo as long as the clients update to yum-2.6 at the
same time.  What will older clients think about the new repo style?  We
have hundreds of clients that may go offline for a week or more
(vacation, take laptop home, etc).

Has this upgrade path been considered?  How painful will it be to
migrate clients from yum-2.2 (my current RHEL 3 setup) or yum-2.4 (my
current RHEL 4 setup) to yum-2.6?

Thanks.

/Brian/
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