UsrMove feature breaking "yum upgrade" upgrades from older releases to F17?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Jan 27 21:38:37 UTC 2012


Nils Philippsen wrote:
> You seem to imply doing things in %pretrans is somehow safer than
> somewhere else. I don't think so -- as Panu said: "The whole %pretrans
> thing is a scary hack that's best seen as a last resort to do the
> minimal required tweak that just cannot be done elsewhere..."

I do not consider a change which requires running a script before using our 
regular packaging system because our packaging system cannot handle the 
change a safe change to do.

        Kevin Kofler



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