[Yum] A couple of problems and RFE for Yum

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:11:10AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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?

  Hum, no branch, simple CVS checkout
  paphio:~/yum -> cat CVS/Repository
  yum
  paphio:~/yum -> cat CVS/Root
  :pserver:anonymous at devel.linux.duke.edu:/cvsroot/yum/cvs
  paphio:~/yum ->

> >    - 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.

  Hum, it still recreates the files, okay, maybe this is not really needed.

> >    - 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)

  Done, #124
    http://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124

 thanks,

Daniel

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