Orphaning system-auto-death

[Matt McCutchen]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/16/2010 06:26 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> Just a thought: How about equipping a repo's metadata with some sort of
> >> "expiration"/"best before" date, which yum etc. could use to warn users?
> >> If we had something like this, system-auto-death etc. would become
> >> superfluous.
> >>
> >
> > it would mean we'd have to be able/willing to push new metadata out to
> > the base repo so that the repo could be used at all for future installs.
> Not necessarily -  Yum could simply issue a warning and continue to 
> work, yum could have a --disable-expiration-warnings option, ...
> 
> There are many possibilities

Rather than push the issue onto the user, I think the right solution
would be for the "fedora" repo definition to have an option
"updated_by=updates" that causes yum not to check its expiration when
the "updates" repo is also enabled.

-- 
Matt