On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 11:47 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > I had a silly thought as the year ticked over last night. - Would it > make sense for us to put in an update nag for yum in yum with a hard > date in it. So, for example, if 3.2.12 is released in march 2008, we > have a check in the startup of the code that says 'if the date is > > march 2011, print out a nag warning to stderr that this version of yum > is quite old and maybe you should look for a newer one or ask your > distribution vendor for an update'. It'd be easy to disable, of course, > but it might be worth while just to catch people like those we know are > still running rhl9 or fc1. > > So, silly thought?
Well, we'd end up patching it out for RHEL, but I'm not necessarily against it. The thing that's tricky is where do you put it (somewhere in the API, cli, ... ?) and how do you word it Jeremy _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
