On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:54:54 -0400 (EDT) Zdenek Pavlas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > NAK. > > This is a really bad idea, as it basically means we have to > > continue to use curl forever or break our configuration ... and any > > Yes, but I don't believe Yum/urlgrabber will use anything but curl > in at least 5-10 years timeframe. And we may document this option > to be valid only for the curl backend. > > > bad/incompatible/whatever changes curl makes to how it parses this > > option can't be worked around by us (without doing way more work > > than we'll want to). > > The pycurl API is/was pretty stable, IMO. And having a generic > setopt() route from yum.conf to curl is a win, as it's much easier to > just modify yum.conf than to patch and rebuild two packages > (urlgrabber & yum). pycurl is dead afaict. which is its own nightmare. Pinning yum to a dead upstream for the url-fetching library by putting in config options is not a good idea. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
