Shouldn't this configuration contract change be accepted in upstream first before we accept it in our maintainership of yum?
El Miércoles 01 Abril 2009, P. Kaluza escribió: > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I try to apply your patch that was made for 3.2.12 in the current > > 3.2.21, it just fails: > > [...] > > > Would you be able to provide a patch against version 3.2.21? > > yup, patch in dpatch format attached. > > > Is there one that exists already somewhere? > > The last one in the debian's version of util-vserver is against yum > 3.2.4. I didn't check upstream trunk, but it was trivial to forward-port > anyway. > > > Also, why this has not been applied > > in the upstream version, if this is a so old issue? > > I can only guess here: > The issue the patch addresses, is that the yum caller can specify > 'cachedir', 'persistdir' and 'logfile', but not where the 'lockfile' > should go. yum alway prepends installroot to all of these, which, in the > case of an externalized yum database, is certainly incorrect for at > least some. > However, the patch solves this by introducing a new interface for all > these config parameters: the ability to prepend 'hostfs://' and > 'chrootfs://' to all these config parameters. > Yum upstream might have problems accepting this new interface, or they > do not agree with the use case of externalized package databases at all. > > Maybe you can confirm this analysis with yum upstream. > > > Also, my plan was to have the current 3.2.21-1 debian release reach > > lenny proposed-updates in order to fix the current breakage. Would you > > feel acceptable to wait for this to happen before we fix this issue? > > Yeah, sure, it's a wish list bug after all. > > > We could work on a version to be sent to Experimental if you wish. > > no hurry from my side, I'll keep my old package on my servers for the > time being. > > Ciao, > Philipp -- Manuel Amador GPLHost technical support / engineering Phone: +1 302 213 1611 Web: http://www.gplhost.com GPLHost:>_ Open source hosting worldwide Web spaces featuring GPL control panel and Xen VPS Locations in Singapore, Sydney, Seattle, Florida, Paris, London, Barcelona and Israel ==[ NOTE ]== To enable our company to support you effectively and promptly, please: 1- If you are our existing customer, please use our support ticket system as much as possible. 2- Get in touch with any of us using instant messenger at http://www.gplhost.com/gplhost-contact.html 3- Please put info at gplhost.com as copy (CC) for any support request sent via email.
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