[Yum-devel] yum-utils packaging

Brian Long brilong at cisco.com
Fri Dec 16 14:38:22 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:53 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 08:44 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I downloaded the yum-utils 0.3.1 src.rpm and ran rpm --rebuild against
> > it.  I ended up with yum-utils, yum-changelog and yum-updateonboot.
> > 
> > The yum-changelog RPM owns the directory /etc/yum/pluginconf.d, not just
> > the changelog.conf inside that directory.  Shouldn't yum itself be the
> > owner of that directory and plugins should only own .conf files?
> > 
> > Also, I noticed yum-updateonboot uses /etc/sysconfig/yum-updateonboot.
> > Why the discrepancy on location of configurations?  Is it just because
> > of different plugin authors?
> > 
> > Do you plan to subpackage fastestmirror, protectbase, or versionlock any
> > time soon?
> 
> Actually, we're always looking for some more help with packaging and
> suggestions on yum-utils. Do you want to help out?

I would not mind helping out.  What would you like to see take place?

/Brian/

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