[Yum] Bleeding edge avoidence

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 13:33 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> Is there any thought to a parameter to tell yum to not look at object
> more recent than xx days.  Often times (as exemplified by a recent bad
> patch with UBUNTU and with Fedora Core6), severe implications
> occurred. In the UBUNTU case, the patch broke the GUI,  while with
> Core6, it broke YUM and hence YUMEX.
> 
> So, the new option could be set to only accept patches that are more
> than xx days old.
> 
> What say you?
> 

What criteria would you use to judge the age of a package?

The build time?

-sv