[CentOS-devel] updated yum packages are now available in c5-testing

Fri Dec 19 00:13:17 UTC 2008
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 12/18/2008 02:45 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>   
>> I've just noticed that there is a small typo in %description for 
>> yum-basearchonly. Quoting the relevant part only:
>> Description: this plugin makes Yum only install basearch packages on 
>> multiarch systems. If you type 'yum install
>>            : foo' on a x68_64 system, only 'foo-x.y.x86_46.rpm' is 
>> installed.
>>
>> note that x68_64 != x86_46 (and neither one is correct.)
>> This is also valid for 1.1.10-9.el5.centos (from Base) and for 
>> 1.1.14-0_beta_15_2.el5.centos (testing)
>>
>>
>> And I think that the license (GPL) is also not correct, all other 
>> plugins coming from the same source seem to be GPLv2+
>>
>>     
>
> Sounds like something for  upstream really. Otherwise we can make the 
> change locally as well.
>
>   
Bz.r.c: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477079

license is correct in yum-utils-1.1.16-13; for reasons that I have not 
identified yet, latest version that my yum info sees is still 1.1.14 
[commands below performed after yum clean all):

[wolfy at wolfy2 tmp]$ yum info yum-basearchonly --enablerepo=testing
Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, downloadonly, fastestmirror, merge-conf
Available Packages
Name       : yum-basearchonly
Arch       : noarch
Version    : 1.1.14
Release    : 0_beta_15_2.el5.centos
Size       : 10 k
Repo       : testing
Summary    : Yum plugin to let Yum install only basearch packages.
URL        : http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/
License    : GPL
Description: this plugin makes Yum only install basearch packages on 
multiarch systems. If you type 'yum install
           : foo' on a x68_64 system, only 'foo-x.y.x86_46.rpm' is 
installed. If you want to install the
           : foo-x.y.i386.rpm, you have to type 'yum install foo.i386'. 
The plugin only works with 'yum
           : install'.

[wolfy at wolfy2 tmp]$ tail -7  /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

#packages in testing
[testing]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing