Re: OT: selective updates from a yum repo

Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Troy Engel wrote:

> Offtopic for sure. Is there a way to only use certain RPMs from a given yum
> repo, ignoring the rest?
> 
> The situation: I installed FC5 on my shiny new Thinkpad T43, which has the
> Intel 2200-based wireless chipset. I typically only use Freshrpms and
> Macromedia (flash-plugin) repos, and hand-pull any other single RPMs I might
> want (a rare occurrence).
> 
> The need: the ipw2200 base RPMs are in ATrpms (which worked great). I'd like
> to enable that repo, but only for ipw2200/ieee802.11 RPMs, and not pull in the
> rest.
> 
> Anyone know if this can be done?

Matthias has the ipw2200-firmware package. That should work.

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