[CentOS] Selectively updating protected repos

Mon Jul 3 19:47:15 UTC 2006
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org>

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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:39:55PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> Now if we can be sure that Yum understands that .rf, .plus, ... are all
> the same packages, we're home free. But ... are they the same packages?
> This may be a dumb question, but can we be sure firefox from one repo is
> compatible with what a user runs? Kernel features differences, etc. For
> firefox, maybe the answer is yes. Does that apply generally to other
> packages too? Is the "unprotect" solution certain to be "generally
> applicable"? OTOH, that is a user administration problem, isn't it?

Actually, that is a minor issue. RPM itself has the final vote on
who is the newest package. So YUM really should not worry about it.
At least, I hope YUM uses rpmVersionCompare.


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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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