[ydl-gen] fresh new yum.conf file via an rpm

[Geert Janssens]

You are correct that yum is a 'noarch' package, so my mail is partly 
confusing.

Instead of searching for a binary ('ppc') package, Kevin should look for a 
'noarch' package.

On the other hand, (I just add this for completeness), in a way 'noarch' 
packages can also be the result of building a source package. This is 
apparently the case with yum for example. Although building such a package 
doesn't consist of creating a binary executable from a source file, it could 
be used to adapt the architecture independent scripts to the precise runtime 
environment. For example, during the 'build' some script parameters could be 
altered to define the paths of certain external tools, or environment 
variables could be set depending on the existing runtime. If all this 
checking had to be done each time the end user runs the noarch program, it 
might be too slow. So by doing a 'build' to preset all that can be preset, 
the resulting noarch program could be more responsive. This is just one 
example, I'm inventing here and now. There's probably other useful reasons to 
have a src rpm for a noarch package.

Geert

On Thursday 8 September 2005 21:06, Brian Wood wrote:
> I thought yum was distributed as a "noarch" package, not really a binary
> or a source package, and it is installed with a n "i" or a "U" just like
> a binary, and with no machine architecture specified (hence the name).
>
> Of course I have been known to be wrong about these things, more times
> that I care to remember :-)
>