[Spacewalk-list] yum-priorities feature in Spacewalk repository management?

[Contant, Olivier]

Thank you Miroslav,

I don't have your experience and I'm very happy that you share it with me.  I will do my best to avoid the pit-trap you've been in.   

Thanks for the insight, I will forward it to the dev team.


Regards,

Olivier



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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Miroslav Suchý
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] yum-priorities feature in Spacewalk repository management?

On 06/02/2011 07:04 PM, Contant, Olivier wrote:
> Miroslav Suchy, why would it be a bad idea to package my dependency with the application?   

Well it can seem as great idea now. It can save you some trouble and work now. I've been there several time, and it always resulted in:
- lack of time updating those packages dependecies
- in few months/years you will find you are using outdated libraries, which have dozens security problems.
- you will have to spend the time to do it properly anyway or you will be doomed to support and package third part libraries, which will have tendency to grow in time.

If you want to do it, just do it and ignore me. I learned my lessons during my life and I will try to avoid packaging dependencies together with application as much as possible.

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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering

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