network manager, KDE and libudev

[John Summerfield]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 07:50 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Solves a different problem. Seems sensible, to me, that when a new 
>> release is installed then the repo for that release should be enabled. 
>> However, there may be other customisations that should be retained (eg 
>> specifications of a local mirror).
> 
> Our current tool set does not have any merging capability of changed
> config files.  Its an all or nothing approach.  The repo files shipped
> in the fedora-release package for a given release will have the correct
> repos enabled (the fedora repo as well as the updates repo), but if
> you've locally modified your repo files, we won't overwrite your changes
> and instead write out .rpmnew files for you to examine and merge as
> appropriate.
> 
> 

That is why I suggested yum be enhanced to add the capability of 
changing this flag,

It would allow the appropriate repos to be enabled, maybe by the 
<distro>-release package, without disturbing other customisations.




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John

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