Orphaning system-auto-death

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/16/2010 06:43 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> 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 don't think this is "pushing the issue onto the user". I'd consider 
this to be warning them about "you might be doing something unwise".

> 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.
Yes, this would also be an alternative, except that one also would have 
to take users into account who run "plain DVD Fedora w/o updates" and 
use-cases which run entirely off-line.

Ralf