[Yum] Bleeding edge avoidence

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 19:36 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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 :)

which was, in fact, my point.

-sv