On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 09:14 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 7/1/06, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmm, what would happen if I left out the > > exclude for base but used the include for plus? > > I tried this with the kernel* packages and it doesn't do what I hoped, > unless I also turn off protect on base, which sort of defeats the > purpose. Oh, well. > > Related question: How does one get a list of the contents of a repo > so as to maintain a correct includepkgs line, while still having the > includepkgs line present? E.g. suppose some new package is added to > centosplus that I might want to use to update a base package. If I > have an includepkgs line for centosplus, "yum check-update" will never > show me that a new package is there, because it will ignore everything > except what's already in the includepkgs line. How I do it is with a separate config file (not named .repo) that you can pass in via the command line ... yum -c /path/to/yum.check.conf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060701/b2502863/attachment-0005.sig>