[CentOS-devel] RPMS and REPOS and REPO-Linkages

[Kevan Benson]

On Friday 17 November 2006 14:32, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:48 -0800, Kevan Benson wrote:
> > On Friday 17 November 2006 03:13, Lance Davis wrote:
> > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Jim Perrin wrote:
> > > >> I agree with Johnny here. It's very convenient to be able to pull in
> > > >> a newer version of a single package and have it work on top of an
> > > >> existing stable system. No need to debug MySQL 5 because I wanted
> > > >> PHP 5.
> > >
> > > I can see the need for possibly 2 different repositroies here to
> > > provide diferent strokes for different folks :-
> > >
> > > maybe
> > >
> > > centosplus-base linked against base - usable for people who only want
> > > to include particular packages and want them linked against base +
> > > updates

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This doesn't really seem to address what I was talking about (or at least it 
doesn't contradict it, the quoted section could apply to everything I 
described easily).  I'm talking mainly about the default naming convention in 
centosplus of packages that supercede a package in the core package set.  I 
included an example of an RPM built against another package in centosplus 
because much of this thread has been about addressing how to accomplish that 
in manner that is consistent and intuitive.

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