[Yum] Bleeding edge avoidence

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 16:37 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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?

Build time and file time are both possibilities, whether either is
actually meaningful to any real situation is another question
entirely :)

I have a plugin to do something like this lying around someplace,
can/will post here if people are interested.

	- Panu -