[packagekit] Ignoring updates

[Robin Norwood]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:12:20 -0400
Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > 
> > How is "ignoring on a per-transaction basis" different from just not
> > selecting the
> > update ? This would fall somewhat short of matching the similar OS X
> > feature that
> > is described here: http://www.xvsxp.com/system/os_updates.php
> 
> Ok, reading that it sounds a lot like "ignore this single update" and
> not any future updates of said software.  That's a lot less intrusive
> and likely does (in the yum case) belong in yum.conf, so that you
> won't have to re-ignore it from other repos.  Re-opening and
> re-editing config files for an application you don't own is somewhat
> scary, especially because it then makes that file modified in the rpm
> sense and you wind up with .rpmnew files littered about during
> upgrades, and maychance miss important config updates.

I'm pretty sure yum allows access to writing yum.conf through it's api,
so we won't be opening the file directly.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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