Re: OT: selective updates from a yum repo

>>>>> "TE" == Troy Engel  writes:

TE> Offtopic for sure. Is there a way to only use certain RPMs from a
TE> given yum repo, ignoring the rest?

TE> The situation: I installed FC5 on my shiny new Thinkpad T43, which
TE> has the Intel 2200-based wireless chipset. I typically only use
TE> Freshrpms and Macromedia (flash-plugin) repos, and hand-pull any
TE> other single RPMs I might want (a rare occurrence).

TE> The need: the ipw2200 base RPMs are in ATrpms (which worked
TE> great). I'd like to enable that repo, but only for
TE> ipw2200/ieee802.11 RPMs, and not pull in the rest.

TE> Anyone know if this can be done?  -te

smart (http://labix.org/smart) does this (you can set channel
"priorities").

With yum you can include the .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with
"enabled=0", the install just the package you want like this:

yum --enablerepo=reponame install <package-name>

but it won't necessarily pull in updates automatically, you'll have to
still run that manually, because, by default, the repo is disabled.

Alex