[Yum] A couple of problems and RFE for Yum

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 09:03, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   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
> 

what branch are you using?

>      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.

again - I'm not seeing this - what branch?

>    - 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

The timestamps and filesizes should be the same in the 2.0.X branch for
yum-arch creation.


>    - 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.

could you file this rfe in bugzilla for yum (linux.duke.edu bugzilla,
not red hat)

>  If I could get the first point solved, I may actually implement the two
> other points.

-sv