[Yum] A couple of problems and RFE for Yum

[Daniel Veillard]

  Hi Seth and all,

 A few troubles as I'm exploring Yum and yum-arch:
   - first CVS checkout doesn't seems to compile
     clean checkout, autoconf, ./configure leads to

     config.status: error: cannot find input file: po/Makefile.in

     then make stops at

     make: *** No rule to make target `keepalive.pyc', needed by `all'.  Stop.

   - I think yum-arch should not overwrite the files if identical
     for example if a generated .hdr or header.info is the same as the
     existing one it should not change the original, nor its timestamp.
     The goal is to not destroy the caches (especially HTTP)
     just because refreshing archives is done from cron
   - and lastly a simple RFE:
     add a --exclude pattern option to yum-arch to skip indexing
     those files or subdirectories. It should be trivial and avoid
     forcing changes of server directory structures for people using
     "test" or "old" subtrees when publishing software.
 If I could get the first point solved, I may actually implement the two
other points.

Daniel

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