Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

[Les Mikesell]

seth vidal wrote:
>
>>>> I specifically complained about the version in FC6, but the reason it 
>>>> matters is that I have a large number of an equivalent version in Centos  
>>>> that I'll have to put up with for years.
>>> Have you tried asking the CentOS guys to update their yum package?
>> The CentOS policy is to maintain strict and exact compatibility with 
>> their upstream "famous North American distribution" that won't let them 
>> mention their name.  So it will update when you-know-who updates - which 
>> by policy isn't likely to be until the next major release.
>>
> 
> Then you aren't being a good sysadmin and following the betas of the
> server operating systems you run.

There are plenty of ways to get broken code.  I don't think it is a bad 
thing to avoid one of them.  And I'm never thrilled when anything adds 
interface changes that require knowing the differences between machines 
in the scripts that ssh commands to them - as for example when yum 
decided not to like --download-only and might or might not do 
--downloadonly depending on the circumstances.  (I still have an 
assortment of CentoOS3.x boxes running too...).

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   Les Mikesell
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