[Yum-devel] yumdownloader vs yum-2.5.x

[Brian Long]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 13:51 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:45 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > At the moment yum-utils cvs HEAD works for both yum-2.4.x and 2.5.x as
> > far as I can tell, with the exception of yumdownloader. Ville Skyttä has
> > made a patch to make it work with 2.5.x:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=122306 but that
> > breaks it with 2.4.x :-/
> > 
> > Sure, at some point we just need to give up on compatibility but I'd
> > just hate to break it only for one util... Thoughts / any ideas how to
> > make it compatible with both 2.4.x and 2.5.x for the time being, or
> > should we just bite the bullet and accept the inevitable?
> > 
> 
> I think we can make it do both, actually. repotrack works with both and
> it does a lot of the same things.

Does it make sense to branch yum-utils as-is to be yum-2.4 compatible
maintenance branch?

/Brian/

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