[CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

Thu Sep 7 14:28:04 UTC 2006
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:09:08PM +0800, John Summerfield enlightened us:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >>>Won't this also cause problems when upgrading to the next release?
> >>
> >>Of course it will. :-(
> >>
> >
> >
> >Not with proper exclude= lines in your configuration it won't. After all,
> >since you made the centos-release package yourself, you can control what
> >goes in that file, so an exclude line should be trivial.
> >
> Eh?
> Doesn't Anaconda look at the release file to see what it's supposed to 
> upgrade _from_? If it doesn't recognise it, how will it know how to upgrade?

Have we moved away from yum into respun CDs?

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