On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:27:17 +0100 Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de> wrote:
> On 12/02/2009 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Matthew Booth (mbo...@redhat.com) said: > >> The separate updates directory has been a pain for as long as I've > >> been using RHL/Fedora Core/Fedora. It means you have two places to > >> look when searching for packages manually, and twice as much to > >> configure when you're configuring yum. It has never benefitted me, > >> or anybody I know, but it has caught me out on any number of > >> occasions. What's more, nobody really seems to know why it's like > >> that: it seems it's always been that way, and nobody ever bother to > >> fix it. > >> > >> So lets fix it. The package set at release time is only interesting > >> to historians. If any of them are really that bothered, I'm sure > >> somebody can come up with a yum module which finds the oldest > >> available version of a package in a repo. > > > > The separate Everything tree that does not get obsoleted is required > > in some form for GPL compliance, with respect to the ISO images that > > we ship. > Isn't this the "Fedora" repo? > > To my knowledge the "Fedora" repos corresponds 1:1 to the isos. To the DVD iso, yes. To any of the spins/desktop/live... nope. They use packages from Everything/ kevin
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