[Yum-devel] beyond 3.0.X

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Dec 7 15:27:19 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 11:23 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >  I'm looking around for things beyond 3.0.X to do in yum and I'm mostly
> > seeing improvements in various things that are really just evolutionary
> > changes. Enhancements but nothing major. I'm curious if maybe I'm not
> > seeing enough so I'm curious what other people are interested in doing.
> > 
> > Right now I'm interested in:
> >  - speeding things up where possible
> >  - making sure we can simplify writing other tools using yum
> >  - robustifying portions of the code for failures
> >  - enhancing our error reporting
> > 
> > What do y'all think matters?
> 
> Oh, hadn't someone on one of the fedora lists mentioned putting all the 
> config files under /etc/yum? Doing that and keeping support for the old 
> locations (as I think you said, Seth) would be nice to do soon, too.

Yes, let's go ahead and get that done. Stuff everything in /etc/yum. In
3.2 it'll be the default in 3.0.X we can simply check both sets of paths
for now to allow  a migration path.

-sv





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