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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:15 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> 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?

There already is a separate branch for yum-2.4 compatible yum-utils but
so the branch has been kept equal to HEAD for all practical purposes,
and as long as we can keep compatibility with reasonable/little effort
I'd rather keep it that way.

	- Panu -