On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:40 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > One of the things thats been in the pipeline for a long time is yum's > awareness of the entire product lifecycle. The way we ship > centos-release right now, it only 'sees' the latest release, so in the > CentOS-5 tree, at the moment you can only 'see' 5.3/ - should you need > an older kernel or anything from 5.0/5.1/5.2 - that requires going in > and fiddling / creating repo stanza's > > So what I would like to do is add awareness of these tree's into the > centos-release package, but leave them disabled. allowing people to do > things like : > > yum --enablerepo=5.2 --showduplicates list kernel > > however, while that does look quite nice and clean it will fail to give > the user what they mostly want. so they will need something like this : > > yum --enablerepo=base-5.2 --enablerepo=updates-5.2 --show duplicates > list kernel > > which is more along the lines of what someone might be looking for - all > kernel packages in the current release+updates, and all the kernel > packages released in 5.2's cycle. [...] > Are there any more options ? yum --enablerepo=*-5.2 --showduplicates list kernel ...you could also add stuff to the aliases plugin, Eg. CENTOS-5.2-BASE --enablerepo=base-5.2 CENTOS-5.2 CENTOS-5.2-BASE --enablerepo=updates-5.2 ...then it could be used like: yum CENTOS-5.2 list kernel --showduplicates ...as a long term. option we'd like to solve this kind of grouping problem with repo. tags (see upstream createrepo/yum). That may not be viable to use for CentOS-5 though, not sure. [...] > Another related question, targeted mostly at Seth and James - can > creatrepo'd metadata contain a baseurl that is on a different host ? Can > yum handle that ? if so, we could have the metadata on mirror.centos.org > while the older packages can stay at vault. Yeh, that works and AIUI Fedora koji static repos. use that functionality (so it's tested :). -- James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> Fedora