[CentOS] Selectively updating protected repos

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Mon Jul 3 20:36:33 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 16:31 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:18:44PM -0400, William L. Maltby enlightened us:
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> > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:39:55PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
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> You need to make sure you understand that the "name" does not contain .rf,
> .plus or otherwise. That is (generally) part of the Release String. RPMs are
> named in a Name-Version-Release.Arch pattern. 

Knew that it was not an official field. Presummed some parsing would be
needed. Just part of the jon if one chooses to go that way.

> 
> This has been discussed on the yum mailing list previously, and it is
> difficult (at best) to track what repository an RPM came from, especially
> when RPMs are installed by hand, repositories are removed, etc. The RPM
> database does not allow for this information in its current implementation. 
> 
> In order to implement what you suggest above goes beyond yum into RPM-land.
> Either way, this probably isn't the right mailing list for this discussion.

Yep. I always get seduced by all the apparently OT threads we see
without complaint. So I just jump right in with my own OT thread.

> 
> Matt
> 
-- 
Bill
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